Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Bored At Work

How long will humanity need to be bored at work?
How long must this go on?
Is it worth food and shelter?
I guess. But you always have to
Leave
That food and shelter and return to
Work
And sit patiently while your life slips
Through the world like
Sand.

The best thing you can hope for
A good night on TV and maybe
A trip to the bar where you will
Bitch about work and eat buffalo wings.

No,
This isn'tjust about getting a new job.
This isn't even about spoiled 1st world countries.
This is about creating an entire world
Where robots do the dull stuff
And everyone else gets to save the Galaxy.

Real social planning;
Is that so much to ask,
You fancy fancy scientists?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

See: The Faint song "Pretty Little Homes"

I feel your pain!

David Oppegaard said...

This poem sort of sucks.

Oh well.

It got me through, like, five minutes of work time.

Anonymous said...

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/539.html

and maybe

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/537.html