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unsure, uncertain, of the laws invested in the realms and reams of poetry ingested, am i addict, or supplier, retail consumer or wholesale supplier, a mom & pop candy store, or a metastasizing intelligence that takes any thing, and all, a solitary letter, an instance of a sighting, a gasping palpitation and reformats it into a hehe literary madhatter^ piece you supply, I demand, I supply, boy oh boy, do I ever, but you never, come to me directly asking, write me a poem, thick or thin, witty fitty or an overly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong e~pistle (a/k/a e~pistol) yet the trade goes on and om, the marketplace never closes, except when periodically the gatewaykeeper is slow to pay his bills, and the trading centres are global scattered, young entrepreneurs try to sell a single piece, as if it was breaking news history, and tired old men, review their lived, eager to memorialize, so it's ok to forget, in retro!spect perspective, the mirror who cannot lie, states affirmatively, you are both ****** and dealer, a corporation scientific of ancient biblical origins, a psalmist, a deacon, a lyricist, but thankfully not a singer, an essayist who writes best when ****** by tawny port wine, who snatches inspiration with equality of equity, (wait! that's wrong, the equity of equality,) where he can find, ***** city streets, the deaths of heroes, the sunrise calm miracle he drinks in daily, by rivers, by seas, by estuaries brackish, and streams of watered purity, the riveting bays, the individualized glisten deflected into my eyes, that each contains one pure blessing within….                                                 nml
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Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM UTC
Supply & Demand, Demand & Supply
unsure, uncertain, of the laws invested in the realms and reams of poetry ingested, am i addict, or supplier, retail consumer or wholesale supplier, a mom & pop candy store, or a metastasizing intelligence that takes any thing, and all, a solitary letter, an instance of a sighting, a gasping palpitation and reformats it into a hehe literary madhatter^ piece you supply, I demand, I supply, boy oh boy, do I ever, but you never, come to me directly asking, write me a poem, thick or thin, witty fitty or an overly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong e~pistle (a/k/a e~pistol) yet the trade goes on and om, the marketplace never closes, except when periodically the gatewaykeeper is slow to pay his bills, and the trading centres are global scattered, young entrepreneurs try to sell a single piece, as if it was breaking news history, and tired old men, review their lived, eager to memorialize, so it's ok to forget, in retro!spect perspective, the mirror who cannot lie, states affirmatively, you are both ****** and dealer, a corporation scientific of ancient biblical origins, a psalmist, a deacon, a lyricist, but thankfully not a singer, an essayist who writes best when ****** by tawny port wine, who snatches inspiration with equality of equity, (wait! that's wrong, the equity of equality,) where he can find, ***** city streets, the deaths of heroes, the sunrise calm miracle he drinks in daily, by rivers, by seas, by estuaries brackish, and streams of watered purity, the riveting bays, the individualized glisten deflected into my eyes, that each contains one pure blessing within….                                                 nml
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Some sunny day, Things will be better. Less tears to cry, Less reasons to cry them. If we can't go on forever, I'd prefer us to live a happy life. Happy people are in short supply, But in high demand. Some day, Happy people will be common, It'll be the sad people who saved themselves, That'll be respected.
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Jul 9, 2025
Jul 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM UTC
Some Sunny Day
The Triffin Dilemma shows the conflict Between a nation’s domestic monetary Policy and international obligations when Its money is the global reserve currency. The US must supply dollars globally to Meet demand, leading to trade deficits And issues such as inflation and debt. Therefore Bitcoin offers a potential solution by Operating outside of any one nation. As a decentralized currency, it halts The need for any one country to bear The burden of reserve currency status. Bitcoin’s fixed supply stops inflation and The global reach serves every nation.
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Feb 28, 2025
Feb 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM UTC
Triffin Dilemma - Bitcoin Poem 127 (Problems/Solutions 039)
I'm talking to you; Is it because I have to Or because I want to? I'm talking to you; Is it to understand you Or so I am understood? I'm talking to you; Is it that I like you Or that I don't? I'm taking to you; Is it to hear myself Or to be heard? Is it solely from the verb Or by the noun? In this rhetoric, Is it mine or ours or yours? In this dialogue, Is it gossip, chitchat, or conversation? By the course of it Is it chance, choice, or demand? I'm talking to you Or I'm talking with you?
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Nov 28, 2024
Nov 28, 2024 at 1:42 PM UTC
Rap, Jaw, Chew The Fat
A wise man once said, if you want to allow yourself a bread, you need to know how to sell yourself when he found my dusty grey shelf. Young Me asked — “What is it that I need to sell,” and he responded, “sell your laugh with a mouthful of pebbles in your mouth, then sprawl your wings of a moth and mimic a butterfly,” “But, that's All I have left!” Young me screeched - protecting the only vanity I possessed, which I put on the market so cheap, so priceless to those who never will to pay, but I demanded the bidding too high to those who gave me a worthless charity, a careless pity.
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Sep 14, 2024
Sep 14, 2024 at 4:12 PM UTC
Pride
Funds are low Food is low Prices are High everywhere we go Gas is on High So, is the Supply Products on Low It makes you wanna cry Products on Demand This makes No sense Were trying to make a Dolllar out of Fifteen cents We're Dealing with Struggles Everyday We some po folks Lord please make a way! We're Dealing with the Struggle For, things have gotten Tight We're Dealing with the Strain Lord Please make it Right Rent is on High Utilities on High Everything thing today has gone sky high These Struggles are Real All we could do is Try LORD PLEASE TAKE THE WHEEL!!! While these Days go by!! B.R Date: 10/23/2022
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Sep 4, 2024
Sep 4, 2024 at 6:49 PM UTC
The Struggles
The cruelty of the the human mind- To lose, to keep, to hide, to find Half our life be only true If somehow the mind allows it to... To forget; well sadly nothing truly competes for it's the most merciless of our minds feats: Nothing can be real if your memory can't on cue: Regurgitate information, ephemerally true. To perform, to recite, to repeat, and understand- through blackness- pathetic, forget it, regret it Oh how the mind cruelly demands.
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Jan 21, 2024
Jan 21, 2024 at 10:03 PM UTC
Demands
One may have to sacrifice a lot just to gain only little and what this will demand would be a big committal. But when one sacrifices a little and happens to gain a lot it could be a very fortunate life which that person has got. ___________________
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Nov 16, 2023
Nov 16, 2023 at 8:11 PM UTC
Quatrain #423 - One may have to.....
full oblivion or demand of consciousness i am i am i
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Apr 14, 2023
Apr 14, 2023 at 12:51 AM UTC
haiku /21/2/7b
if love could say anything it will demand answers from those who used the name of love for hurting a heart where love bloomed
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Dec 29, 2022
Dec 29, 2022 at 8:37 AM UTC
love will ask
Enervated with these demands of needing explanations to everything she had done. She was worn out, until her nose bled her heart pounded, her ears rang and her eyes turned white — She was almost out of breath. Did you even bother to know this? Because the very first thing people would ask to her wasn’t “How do you feel on this?” But, “What is your contribution on this?”
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Jan 31, 2021
Jan 31, 2021 at 11:50 PM UTC
Did You Even Bother to Know This?
We Are Lost Children Living Within A Society That Demands Perfection... ~Moises G.
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Jan 9, 2021
Jan 9, 2021 at 8:38 PM UTC
Survive
I dedicated my life to stay by your side respect our relationship & to always love you right, keeping a vow to never cross any boundary line. But you showed a different side. An unexpected twist that brought tears to my eyes. Your energy changed. From positive to negative, this affection & demeanor wasn’t the same. Anytime my friends called to check on me or hangout, you yell. Cursing out my name as if I brought shame into our relationship. Now I can’t breathe... I can’t breathe because I’m traumatized, I’m traumatized because I can’t socialize, I can’t socialize because I ghosted my friends for you so now I hide in fear You stole a peace of my mind to the point where I can’t even recognize who I am anymore. Which causes me to feel less of a “Woman” inside. But no more! Times have changed Somewhere along the road I found strength. Gain the courage to move on & think about what’s best for me rather than sink back into your arms. See, I've learned that you never had power... You were a simple weak man trying to devour a Queen’s castle rather control your own **** tower like the lowlife peasant you are. But now that you are gone, it is safe to say I am better without you in every way. So stay your b_tch a__ off of my phone. There’s nothing here for you, please leave me alone. Your words mean nothin', so please hold your tongue & don’t worry about the next man I f-k with nor I am lovin'. Just know it will never again be you, you’re no longer a discussion highly irrelevant good riddance , peace out boo boo.
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May 23, 2020
May 23, 2020 at 2:47 AM UTC
A Torn Woman
I dedicated my life to stay by your side respect our relationship & to always love you right, keeping a vow to never cross any boundary line. But you showed a different side. An unexpected twist that brought tears to my eyes. Your energy changed. From positive to negative, this affection & demeanor wasn’t the same. Anytime my friends called to check on me or hangout, you yell. Cursing out my name as if I brought shame into our relationship. Now I can’t breathe... I can’t breathe because I’m traumatized, I’m traumatized because I can’t socialize, I can’t socialize because I ghosted my friends for you so now I hide in fear You stole a peace of my mind to the point where I can’t even recognize who I am anymore. Which causes me to feel less of a “Woman” inside. But no more! Times have changed Somewhere along the road I found strength. Gain the courage to move on & think about what’s best for me rather than sink back into your arms. See, I've learned that you never had power... You were a simple weak man trying to devour a Queen’s castle rather control your own **** tower like the lowlife peasant you are. But now that you are gone, it is safe to say I am better without you in every way. So stay your b_tch a__ off of my phone. There’s nothing here for you, please leave me alone. Your words mean nothin', so please hold your tongue & don’t worry about the next man I f-k with nor I am lovin'. Just know it will never again be you, you’re no longer a discussion highly irrelevant good riddance , peace out boo boo.
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What do I stand for? Such a simple question, sometimes incessant in your mind. Gnawing at your psyche asking, demanding, screaming. What do YOU stand for? I know...
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Apr 28, 2020
Apr 28, 2020 at 7:00 PM UTC
Yourself
Dead on demand wil be the name of my band. When I'm reborn and my friends are too. A different universe where our dreams come true. Not like in here. Where every phone call is bad news that you don't want to hear. We will be free because we went through hell in here first. We know not to be too ecstatic cause we'd known the thirst. When everything goes right we know what every type of wrong feels like. Everything will be completely turned upside down and ruled by music and magic. Love is rather ecstatic. In here it's dark when I wake and all the people are separated. In their own space dealing with their own pain. Dead on demand is something that could never really be honorated. *** it's gone on too long! Learning from every disaster but disaster will always remain! We will be free! Dead on demand flying to the colourful sea. Reborn with your friend. Dead on demand will be the name of my band! It will never be like it is in here. Where every phone call is bad news that you don't want to hear. We will be free because we went through hell in here first. We know not to be too ecstatic cause we'd known the thirst. When everything goes right we know what every type of wrong feels like. Everything will be completely turned upside down and ruled by music and magic. Love is rather ecstatic. Love is rather right. Love is a feeling like you never felt before. Love is rather ecstatic. Love is better than magic!
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Apr 5, 2020
Apr 5, 2020 at 4:47 AM UTC
Dead on demand
I just feel so small and everything else is so huge and it keeps piling up on me, smothering me, until all I can see and breath is this wall of musts and responsibility and endless tasks and emotions that won't stop pressing up in my throat and I can't cry, I just don't take the time to do it, everything else is too demanding that I can't even do that, and I don't remember anymore how to relax my shoulder or unclench my jaw and I just can't see any pause ahead, no oasis of breathing deeply again in the near future, no space for just me to be.
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Mar 30, 2020
Mar 30, 2020 at 2:00 PM UTC
- the evolution
To all the boys who have ruthlessly clinged themselves upon me, forcing me to make room for them, demanding me to fit into their dreams of me, expecting me to perform, wanting me to take them in. To all the boys who have made me change for them, rushed my development, taking me out into the wilderness, so far away that I no longer could find my way back home. To all of you who have shaped me into who I am today, leaving me less naive, so careful of others' feelings after learning to put theirs ahead of my own. To all of you who have left me shining from all the love, more in touch with my feelings and my gut, a bit harder but beautiful in the adore from your eyes. To all of you - I am done. I have nothing left to say to you, I've already thought it all. But to myself - I made it home. Bruised, scared and scarred but I made it. And even though it isn't what it used to be, I'm still back and the next time I go, it will be when I want to go and not because of a stupid boy.
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Mar 8, 2020
Mar 8, 2020 at 8:06 AM UTC
- To all the boys
You watch helpless as i burn and demand to know who did it but how can I say It was you who lit the match
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Nov 22, 2019
Nov 22, 2019 at 8:59 AM UTC
burn
manager demanded: write for all of 'em conscience claimed: write yesterday time stopped passing by yesterday i floated above the hudson river grand mansions polished shores self-storages swamps vultures scavengers the pillage started when scavengers pillaged prey don't get me wrong you get me?
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Nov 17, 2019
Nov 17, 2019 at 12:43 PM UTC
PPLR Demand
What do i seek? What more do I ask for? What is it that's left? To feel, to say, to listen and to bear. To give is to take, To trust is to wait, To attach is to not depend And to love is to not demand. The only equations I understand. But why is it That I deviate And I'm unable to take a stand? But why is it That my weakness Makes you my need beforehand? But why is it That I want the mountains And give in to the islands? But why is it That I always need time And it slips away like sand? But why is it That I want to build a house And still need my empty land? But why is it That I want to rewrite stories And not give a second chance?
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Oct 31, 2019
Oct 31, 2019 at 2:36 AM UTC
To love is to not demand
My eyes hurt whenever I see what they have in their hands It seems the treasures they have glow more than mine If I could take what they have maybe I won't whine or demand For my mother told me a boy should never be envious in life As I was getting taller my resentment grew stronger and louder, "I want to have what they want! They have the cleanest of luxury" I was never raised to grasp rubies so I begrudge men with power Whenever I want something they refused, so I grew up with envy Now my hands can afford diamonds like everybody else the satisfaction that I felt was all I yearned for these years Looking back to where accessories were considered wealth Senseless for me to think that not having earthly desires is what I fear Now if ever I pass by an alley and a kid looks at me with jealousy Three words to change his look, "Here's a candy" So he could see that happiness shines more than jewelry
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Sep 24, 2019
Sep 24, 2019 at 3:17 AM UTC
Ill Will
Her child was downed Downed to the downed land His wings were completely destroyed The hunger animal approached She screamed, "Help my juvenile! He was so little He can't face that awful His wings were damaged Oh! My God help him She looked wide The birds could not rejoin They knew who would join They escaped as the rain Fallen wide of the kind land In spite the kind should demand The mother knew there is no gain Except pray to his God As she knew the wild could Snap him without any tick So she closed her eyes Flew wide, wide While her tears ascended As the flow of anger and trembled Water as the man was deliberated As wild
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Sep 3, 2019
Sep 3, 2019 at 5:12 AM UTC
The broken wings
poems are cheap they say, the supply exceeds the demand, *all are product of criminal mischief, and Lord, I know, I’m one of the most thieving, most mischiefing ones when no one was about, I scribbled many notes, transplanted from my eyes, for a bottled voyage to fallow beaches for sandy seeding no matter IF these poems are from your womb ripped, ****** red concoctions of life’s cute cutting edge inscriptions, no one cares re your titanic love’s labors, your children’s betrayal no one cares from whence and wherefore they birthed, all words, low class and progeny, not prodigy, of demeaning circumstances, best tossed back without much foolish hesitation writ with pen tip of broken green glass from a parking lot, the point I broke once more before my commencement, inked from a wicked witch’s melted green spittle pooling alongside poets of no way, falsely prophesying falsehoods most singularly bad, waste not-want not, time better spent than reading rhymes of stolen disrepute and cloudy ownership and ignoble authorship unless you among a blessed few, who see a full blown poem in glassine clarity, birthed fully formed Elton songs in a mouth full of amniotic fund, you, put down thy laboring eleven instruments if words you claim of new parentage, you as the mother dear, know there is nothing new under the sun, even these very words, scripted by Israelite king whose tomb gone, he, too, poet forgotten join me in a needle park of junkies who tried and failed, nickel bag smoking budget dope words, in cigarettes of mostly discarded seeds and twigs, hallucinatory inhaling the same vision again & again you refuse, naturally, glamming in notional newness, your arrogance, a plentiful commodity of wood-be writers by thousands buried in wooden caskets, under wooden inscription-less crosses and of the trillion readers possible, to coloring picture books and instant grams, all have gone to the labor-free glancing look-see of a seconds-short, lengthy meme, 10 second videos, 140 limitations of the greatest, of Shakespeare and Coleridge, reader’s fast-dying, sunburned neurons reply; “free ***** of his Love’s Labour’s Lost, and the Ancient Mariner, overdue, free him too!” ancients mock you aware that there be no verbal combination yet to foretell, what Lear said, that’s the the idea, “When we are born, we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools.”^ fools we are, for there be no fore, the tale already told, once before & more, vaingloriously does this poet’s false vanity speak, so, so boisterously,*   “why my tale, why my tail, is as new as the oldest fossil”
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Jun 23, 2019
Jun 23, 2019 at 7:00 PM UTC
poems are cheap they say, the supply exceeds the demand
poems are cheap they say, the supply exceeds the demand, *all are product of criminal mischief, and Lord, I know, I’m one of the most thieving, most mischiefing ones when no one was about, I scribbled many notes, transplanted from my eyes, for a bottled voyage to fallow beaches for sandy seeding no matter IF these poems are from your womb ripped, ****** red concoctions of life’s cute cutting edge inscriptions, no one cares re your titanic love’s labors, your children’s betrayal no one cares from whence and wherefore they birthed, all words, low class and progeny, not prodigy, of demeaning circumstances, best tossed back without much foolish hesitation writ with pen tip of broken green glass from a parking lot, the point I broke once more before my commencement, inked from a wicked witch’s melted green spittle pooling alongside poets of no way, falsely prophesying falsehoods most singularly bad, waste not-want not, time better spent than reading rhymes of stolen disrepute and cloudy ownership and ignoble authorship unless you among a blessed few, who see a full blown poem in glassine clarity, birthed fully formed Elton songs in a mouth full of amniotic fund, you, put down thy laboring eleven instruments if words you claim of new parentage, you as the mother dear, know there is nothing new under the sun, even these very words, scripted by Israelite king whose tomb gone, he, too, poet forgotten join me in a needle park of junkies who tried and failed, nickel bag smoking budget dope words, in cigarettes of mostly discarded seeds and twigs, hallucinatory inhaling the same vision again & again you refuse, naturally, glamming in notional newness, your arrogance, a plentiful commodity of wood-be writers by thousands buried in wooden caskets, under wooden inscription-less crosses and of the trillion readers possible, to coloring picture books and instant grams, all have gone to the labor-free glancing look-see of a seconds-short, lengthy meme, 10 second videos, 140 limitations of the greatest, of Shakespeare and Coleridge, reader’s fast-dying, sunburned neurons reply; “free ***** of his Love’s Labour’s Lost, and the Ancient Mariner, overdue, free him too!” ancients mock you aware that there be no verbal combination yet to foretell, what Lear said, that’s the the idea, “When we are born, we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools.”^ fools we are, for there be no fore, the tale already told, once before & more, vaingloriously does this poet’s false vanity speak, so, so boisterously,*   “why my tale, why my tail, is as new as the oldest fossil”
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Have you been searching for that perfect gift? Want to say something special, give someone a lift? Are you popping the question?  Is it someone's birthday But you're just not quite sure of the right words to say? Is the one that you love feeling lonely or sick? If a card or a letter just won't do the trick... Pick up the phone call Poetically Correct With our help, you'll achieve the desired effect Just give us some details, and in a short time You can send someone special, a gift that's sublime Anniversaries ~ Apologies ~ Any Occasion ~ Baby Dedications ~ Bachelor/Bachelorette Party ~ Birth Announcements ~ Condolences ~ Congratulations ~ Eulogies ~ Father's Day ~ Get Well ~ Graduation ~ Holidays ~ Love ~ Proposals ~Reunions ~ Roasts ~ Secret Admirer ~ Special Friend ~ Surprise ~ Tell 'Em Off ~ Told U So ~ Valentines ~ You Name It
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Jun 16, 2019
Jun 16, 2019 at 11:48 AM UTC
Poetically Correct - A Business Proposal
You Nasty Peoples You Middle and Lower Class You Labour Class First you asked for Education We gave you Then you asked for Jobs We gave you Then you started getting salary Because we gave you Then you requested pay hike We accepted and gave you Then you asked for health benefits We gave you – 'health allowance' Then you asked for other allowances We still gave some of them Then you asked for promotion We gave you Then you started asking for bonus We gave you Then you asked for retirement pension We gave you Then you asked for retirement gratuity We gave you Then you asked for death gratuity We gave you We noticed, You always demand You open your mouth more often We accept your right to live But you live to ask for rights You always try to gain You always try to bargain You feel yourself very smart But we are also not fools If you further dare to ask for more We will ****** all the things we gave Slowly slowly, One by one, Step by step We have many ways to deal with you We have divided, we have ruled We will divide and we will rule First we will ****** death gratuity Then retirement gratuity and pension This process will go on and on Like a ball rolling on and on The more you demand The more we ****** No you can't equate yourself With our emoluments and positions We are the Boss, We are special You are the slave, nothing special We will enjoy what we want You have to bear what we want Never try to act so smart We are much smarter than you Note it Down, Make it clear You are the Beggar, We the Giver We have the Power, We have the Money We have the resources and the Law And this is not so Funny.
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May 19, 2019
May 19, 2019 at 5:42 AM UTC
You Nasty Peoples
You Nasty Peoples You Middle and Lower Class You Labour Class First you asked for Education We gave you Then you asked for Jobs We gave you Then you started getting salary Because we gave you Then you requested pay hike We accepted and gave you Then you asked for health benefits We gave you – 'health allowance' Then you asked for other allowances We still gave some of them Then you asked for promotion We gave you Then you started asking for bonus We gave you Then you asked for retirement pension We gave you Then you asked for retirement gratuity We gave you Then you asked for death gratuity We gave you We noticed, You always demand You open your mouth more often We accept your right to live But you live to ask for rights You always try to gain You always try to bargain You feel yourself very smart But we are also not fools If you further dare to ask for more We will ****** all the things we gave Slowly slowly, One by one, Step by step We have many ways to deal with you We have divided, we have ruled We will divide and we will rule First we will ****** death gratuity Then retirement gratuity and pension This process will go on and on Like a ball rolling on and on The more you demand The more we ****** No you can't equate yourself With our emoluments and positions We are the Boss, We are special You are the slave, nothing special We will enjoy what we want You have to bear what we want Never try to act so smart We are much smarter than you Note it Down, Make it clear You are the Beggar, We the Giver We have the Power, We have the Money We have the resources and the Law And this is not so Funny.
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