aint gonna work on maggies farm by Artur DesruisseauxThe girls at work get knocked up
and they say to me "don't get knocked up" while you work here
and I whisper back
"don't worry, I won't"
death is slowly moving in
likes ants and mold and trash in the street
once what was nice is
like ants and mold and trash in street.
The guys at work say "fuck this place"
and I tell them
"I am, every day"
all I have is ants and mold and trash in the street
when I was little,
I know this has nothing to do with anything
but I received an ant farm for a birthday present when I was 8
all you needed were the ants
you had to send away for them
so I filled out the paper work and waited
a few weeks later I got a brown paper bag full of dead ants
it was typical of my life and for everything to come
at 8 I had an ant farm mausoleum
and no friends 09/23/2013 Posted on 09/23/2013 Copyright © 2024 Artur Desruisseaux
Member Comments on this Poem |
Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 09/23/13 at 03:57 PM wonderful story. it appears that ants and humans share something in common, death, which prevents both from working anywhere, but whilst they live ants are luckier than humans, in that none are expected to pay tax on their labor. |
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