Try All Things [rev] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Advice I need after reading French employment laws:
just be happy, fantasise to combat this: “Employee’s
echelon & coefficient as stated & related to education,
qualification and job exigencies” - my head explodes

I fall down - praying to the Lord adored by Psalmists -
begging forgiveness for my many sins, and given that
these terrible laws already lead to altruists jumping in-
to a cannibals’ pot - like Ayn Rand said we would

When restrictive social security laws take over every-
thing and we live to bring sacrifice every day - never
enjoying labour’s end as it all goes to Government &
a little bit reaches starving hands of the supplicants

Who line the streets for bread that’s stale, & second-
hand clothes; French companies can’t take workers
in, only family & dear friends trusted to be employed
because no-one may be fired, even if they steal and

Never grace the office with their presence, still they
must be paid even if we file bankruptcy due to them;
bound head to foot by the system, a rational person
will run from them, though the same problem rears

Its head in Africa’s officialdom, determined to try all
things that failed before; like small kids mad with un-
expected freedom the lawmakers - mad with power
play around with society, their new toy, loving every

Mess they make, every failure of the risks they take;
long ago France chose to throw off false religion, in
its place set up false humanism; it’s a pity they can-
not free themselves without the help of Madame La

Guillotine - it’s time for another revolution, of soldiers
marching, gory flags and singing of the blood flowing:
how easy it is to sell your soul to false gods - though
you know after seeing the effect, sacrifice to achieve

Nothing is the most destructive, dehumanising thing
humanity’s secular laws can bring…