Wage Earner Poem by Michael Walkerjohn

A question arises
often more or less
of societal progression or
that some thing else…
Thought; through all of history
all knowledge, all of the ‘human’ experience
of that question which arises more so often
than not; especially when ‘we’
are not so sure anymore of our humanity…
‘We’ are laughingly languishing above
all humility, all community and ‘we’ feel
an imagined immunity from the consequences
of that ‘what if’ or ‘certainty’ that our
‘true’ selves with all impunity and a dreamy
“manifest destiny”; that ‘we’ each, are all that…
Not such a bad thought; however, again I digress
from a point of such simplicity, on an
issue to such clarity about the subject of parity
rarely experienced in all of the centuries
that humanity has been allowed to breath
in the ethereal air within this atmosphere…
Speaking rather than thinking; as if ‘we’ held close
the ‘key’ to our somewhat meaningless lives
as you rise and walk, ride, or drive
all activities that cost and reduce your ‘take’
diminish your stake, and virtually
eliminate your “net’; what the heck!
You say to yourself, if only there were more money
on my “wage earners” check, and yet we
persist and insist that our freedom is based upon this…
Earning a wage, that stipend for being a number
in a system which rejects wholly your very existence
when it comes to participation in the politics of
district, city, state, and nation; only the notion of
the symbolic incantation of a long ago squashed republic
democracy and “Freemen’s Association” entices you
to even once consider that truly
“things are not what they seem to be”…
Listening, liltingly listening to the disparaging questionings
of all the unseemingly sequestering’s and discussions of
things; the changes considering the fate of your wage earning
financial bottom lines in the political cycles seen to bleed
all of the joys you are experiencing, compounding
the depths of the desperations you constantly fight to hide
from the significant truth of this reality that none of you see!
Wage earners, contributing the greater percentage of the funds
that are deemed necessary by political bodies misrepresenting
your ‘best interests’ for the sake of those “non-wage earners”
both above and beneath your given ‘station’ in this
nation, this society of “have-it-all’s” and “have-it-nots”
and the questioning “you”…
Who consider your “lots” to be fortunate, your fates to be
circumspect and ordinary and obedient and obligatory
because this is the teaching, the structuring, the imprisoning
of your accepted mindset; do you not realize this is what “they” seek?
To mould you flaccid, powerless, and weak willed subjects
by mentioning what could be of you and your families
should you choose to not comply with the suggestions from
“their” political touts that you elect to be representative
of the ‘society’ you believe you’re self-included in
in this day and age…
Wage earners, do you not feel the rage, recognize
your state, identify your cage, lament your place
realize your fates, understand what is to come next?
I suggest you stop giving the thoughts you are ignoring
that “proverbial rest”, and put each thought to a test
using data that exists to formulate the database on
your simplistic living experiences and then; reach those
conclusions which so much suggest that collusion is the
term best utilized, the enterprise which when visualized
makes the vivid truth of all of this no big surprise…
Wage earners; a pleasant caste, the peasant class
that necessary yet unimportant circumstance of the
advancements and technologies humankind has ‘discovered’
and or ‘rediscovered’ that allows the species to live
well beyond it’s designed capacity both physically and
mentally without making a progression in its diminishing
spirituality, making more of a beast of each breathing
beyond that ‘natural’ design and capacity, what do you say?
Is this reading of the plight you lead too in-depth to see
how profound the questions to be, tick your curiosity, smack
your personal sensibilities, contort your very essence, indeed!
Congratulations then, should this be the ‘causa’ today
for a moment or more you may realize what reality scores
and what you total up as in relation to the life you lead
to the things you seek, to the thoughts you bleed, to the
mindset you hide beneath; currently sustaining
consciously draining, life’s energies waning, your inner
smiles turning downward as your unconsciousness spirals
inward and your truth bares its insides out in time’s
mirror, what horror, what deception, what a ‘herd’ you
are condemned to and within you your fears continue
to defend themselves from the awakening neo-you…
Do not be a procrastinating yo-yo, a stupefied dumbo
that frivolous bimbo or thought threatened kill-joy, a boy toy
or service girl to ‘those’ teachings and guidance which this
‘society’ insists is the only way our communities, our nation
and our world can exist is for this slotting, this stationing
this rationalization of a specifically contrived notion that
in birth, appearance, and conjugal nascence you remain
as a piece of a more complicated system that classifies
you as a mere necessity and not as a participant…
Arise in this instant and be progressively incessant
and be militarily resistant to ‘those powers’ and ‘their’ puppets
try not to be that garbage canned muppet, a stuffed
cultivated truffle, a mere irritant which cannot comment
who will not represent, who selfishly retreats to the
comfort of ‘cage’ and ‘wheel’, who “turns heels” to confrontation
all over this nation; do not be a ‘woosie’, a wallflower
a useless-not-to-be…
Do be one who seeks to see the grim reality, the schism
that currently suggest you “Wage Earners” are simply a sub-set
within the species ‘we’, and are only worth spit in finality
Open your minds up please and create the fact sheets
for you to see that convoluted meanness and rabid separatists
are gathering to finally, in effect, initiate “their” final
solution to this ages old situation of a population that is
shiftless and lazy, all drug dazed and or crazy, non-productive
and messy needful and pressing always for more from
those “they” that ignore ‘you’ and have the affluence and power
to break, at any time, the system which allows you to be
somewhat prosperous…
Whatever; comes after you cease your growing nervous laughter
do not flatter yourselves with idle chatter, for ‘they’ really
value acquiring all of your worldly chattel, willfully think
you as cattle, consider your very existence not to matter
and will most certainly seek out and pay for your bones
to be burned and ashes scattered down the street drains
sewage lines and landfills as “out of sight, out of mind”
is the basis of ‘their’ motto…
Try not to grovel when the ‘weight’ of ‘their’ gavels
crash down upon your ideas of what “freedom' entitles
and hold on to your entrails as you bow down to the
hob-nailed boots stomping upon your perceptions all
across this once fortunate nation now relegated
to dysfunction, to separation, to financial segregation
practicing daemonic decision to ‘what vision’ the all of US
regards as ‘that direction’ one faces when the winds
indiscriminately blow apart your personal planning, your
questionable standing, your livelihood, your neighborhood
and your ‘will’ towards doing good…
Or otherwise organize, gather in your compatriots
worldwide and seek to find a common ‘bottom line’
that justifies your ‘wage earners’ questionable right to survive!