"My Last Employee" (Guest post)

My Last Employee

MARCUS BALES·SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2016

That's my last employee standing there,
Protesting, wet and cold, and wondering where
His pension went. And how his former pay
Let's stop and watch him standing with his sign,
Decreased in buying-power, he cannnot say. 

Queuing in the unemployment line.
Nation it is to keep his wages low 

He cannot say because the GOP 

Has taught him how important to a free 

So I have monthly profits I can show,
I know that look -- as if you'd like to ask 

Creating rising prices for our stock 

By unemployment lines around the block. 

How I can sleep at night with such a task.
Or worker's rights! I’m planning how to slash 

I sleep just fine. And better than that guy, 

Who worries whether someone such as I 

Should care about community, not cash, 

Expenses sending more jobs overseas,
They work their unpaid overtime and bring 

Replace the rest with contractors like these 

Illegals I have found that I can cheat 

With deportation threats. They scarcely eat! 

Enormous profits -- more than anything
American workers just don't understand 

Before. And this guy and his fellows hate 

The cheaper workers coming in the gate 

Instead of Wall Street, me, my 

Board, or staff. 

You'd cry if money didn't make you laugh.
The Chairman of my Board's known munificence 

We take advantage of them with our brand: 

The right to work, and don't pay union dues, 

They medicate themselves with food and booze. 

Drive on, driver. It’s nearly time to meet 

The company directors. I repeat,
Your acquiescence to our acquisition, 

Is ample warrant that no just pretence 

Of yours to get a golden parachute -- 

You’ll see how I can play him like a flute -- 

Is likely to be disallowed; I'm sure 

You'll like the package offered to secure 

And me ascending to the top position. 

That Dale Chihuly cast in glass for me. 

Drive on! I hope you notice as we go 

The leather seats recline -- and watch the glow

Of flowers in the dome light, a rarity

That Dale Chihuly cast in glass for me.