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Play the game

You’ll go to college and get a job

You’ll get a job and earn money

 

You’ll learn to climb the corporate latter

You might get a promotion someday

 

You’ll have a lover you visit sometimes

And you’ll have a streaming subscription

 

You’ll talk to your friends about work

You’ll know all the corporate words

 

You’ll play the game, you’ll play fair

You’ll stay in line, never breaking a law

 

The laws that let the owners keep

The things that they own already

 

Your favorite show will stop for ads

You’ll never have anything forever

 

You’ll never really go hungry

You’ll have at least one good meal daily

 

But you’d never buy fruit at full price

But some days, that’s all you’d like to do

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18
Published
Apr 1
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2025

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