Cherry Pits
Contract, zero-based,
Uber part-time,
In the gig economy
Where wages are a crime―
Packing at a warehouse,
Always on your feet;
Cycle food delivery,
Wobbling on the street.
Working without benefits―hope you don’t get ill,
Paying off your student loans, the never-ending bill,
For a piece of paper that can’t help you compete,
Because the thing you studied has become quite obsolete.
How are you supposed to live, where rents are soaring high?
Retirement’s a cruel joke: you’re barely getting by!
This old working world’s gone so downhill, it’s like to give you fits:
We boomers got the cherries, and all you folks get are pits.
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