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Nov 2015
I want to wake up in bed in the
land of the free and know
what it is to be me,
I want
a living wage,
a roof over my head,
a self respect and not to
feel as if I'm being pecked to death by
the vulture
employer.

To this end
I employ a variety of devices, but to no avail, I am being set up and thus I fall and I fail and the rich ******* get richer on the backs of the workers.

Revolution's no solution,
that's just a pollution of the mind,
I need to sit down and communicate
that a higher rate of pay to pay for necessities I need today will only make me see what it is to be free when I'm me and I'll work just as well when I'm not foraging for scraps, but they'll tell me, 'we can't afford it'
and I know that's *******.

So I do a bit and a bit's all I'll do,
whatever I do
nothing gets through to them.
$15.00 minimum rate.
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  69/Here and now
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