Why Do I Do This to Me
Being a wage slave coerces me out of the depths for an hour or four.
Unable to handle these repetitive chores.
I can’t be tethered to my debt any more.
No choice but to endure.
Jason Ridpath
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Being a wage slave coerces me out of the depths for an hour or four.
Unable to handle these repetitive chores.
I can’t be tethered to my debt any more.
No choice but to endure.
Jason Ridpath's poem is a short, tired complaint about working a job just to stay afloat. The speaker calls himself a "wage slave," and the word choice tells us how he sees his situation: not as honest work, but as something forced on him.
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