ETERNAL BELLY RUMBLE BACK STORY


(Polaroid of Falkirk's picturesque old brutalist Vicar Street DSS from sometime in the mid-to-late 90s)


You know

Over the bony

Lean skint years

The Department of

Health and Social Security

Became 

The Department of 

Social Security

Became

The Department of

Work and Pensions.

No health

No wealth

No pretence at caring.

Monitored bank accounts

Jobsworth wound-inflicters

Sniffing around for the

Greedy aspirant proles

Always repeat always

Trying to scam a few quid

All ways and means tested.

But the modern world is all

Boxed up 

Locked up, locked down

Interconnected

Corruption infected

And any 

AHA! GOTCHA!! moments

Of punitive benefits cuts

Will never be replicated

Way up in the 

Elite fatgut scamster echelons.

The giddy laughing

Corporate coup crew

Know how to pull an

Anti-social insecurity 

Scam you damned amateur.

You didn't even get crumbs

They got the whole hot cake

And baked themselves

A file into it to

Get out of jail free.

So no matter 

How little you try to hustle

You will never get anything like

How much the proper

Corporate thieves get

All in a hard day's workshy.

So don't even try.

Just get back to that

Dead end sharp bends ahead

Delivery driver or cleaner or

Security guard or carer career.

Penny for the guy

Falling from the grateful sky.

And whatever you do

Never 

Don't you ever

Let your dazed fazed razed

Escape-tunnelling mind

Wander and wonder

About the

Infinite life possibilities that

Whoever They are sewed up

Long before you were born 

Puppydog begging at the 

Rigged tilted table.

Just nod and smile

As they work you to death

Minimum wage maximum rage

Just like every other

Sister and brother

Whore's-kin serf in history

And be thankful that

AI hasn't stolen your job

And left you

Dead in the dirt...

...Yet.


THE NEVER END




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