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LABOR POEM OF THE WEEK: Jeff Bezos has a Rocketship Called: New Shepard

Chris Garlock | Published on 3/17/2025

Jeff Bezos has a Rocketship Called: New Shepard

 

The ruling, well-fed, educated, rested white men

benefiting from capitalism claim

Socialism will not work for America.

 

Sad to report, they're right --

it won't work in their America --

stolen, enslaved, imprisoned and exploited America.

 

We've given it an unequitable try

playing by their written rules --

and ones made up on the fly.

 

When will we

wake up, wise up, rise up --

REALIZE we've got the numbers?

 

Let all voices be heard

the way --

We the People oughta work.

 

Have a say in the way

things go

in a land prospering off our labor.

 

Let's say this in a way they may understand,

an expression of their own:

Lead, follow or get out of the way.

 

It's time for a new day!


Roy N. Mason, The Blue Collar Review

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