Baron of Business
As you sit on top of the world
In your comfy swivel chair
And recline in luxury
In a world that’s so unfair
You distract from the aching reality
Until it's no longer there
When the crack and heroin
Take you elsewhere
You forget how many workers
Are still in management
Or how many were lost
In that rainbow trout accident
Those fortunate to live
Are back at work again
Each day and the next
Is like the last again
You pay for go carts
And dance parties downstairs
To keep the help in line
When the smart ones drum up swears
They never learn what to concern
From training or days past
So, when work is over
They don’t get to leave last
The meek ones never notice
Yet them you must occupy
With raves and pillow fights
To mask every lie
Those fortunate to live
Are back at work again
Each day and the next
Is like the last again
Smarter ones make friends
And group to conspire
Then scaffolders are gone
On their third day of hire
At least they stopped screaming
Scaring the sheep down there
But now the sheep are fed
And hop without a care
Days after they rave and dance
No need for another shill
As you mask the murders and shipment
In Teriyaki, Apple, and Dill
Those fortunate to live
Are back at work again
Each day and the next
Is like the last again
But how do you live with it
Your own people being sold
And those who don’t comply
Served to your workers, cold
Swirled together in a melting pot
We don’t see their faces
Their agonized screams
Drown in large baboon bases
Henry tastes like Apple butter
And Tom like the new Banana
But who remembers them now?
Tom’s loving widow, Ana
Those fortunate to live
Are back at work again
Each day and the next
Is like the last again
You money grubbing monster
Sitting on your office chair
Sipping chardonnay
And looking everywhere
For budgets to cut or employees to fire
Because greed and power consumed you
And you find the spending dire
But that’s still nothing new
How does no one know?
How are you still free?
You should be in jail boss
For the death and treachery
Those fortunate to live
Are back at work again
Each day and the next
Is like the last again
Your scheme is getting old
And your other slaves will soon see
The error of your ways
And the money, hopefully
Drug cartels weren’t enough
So, you ‘promote’ your other men
And lie to their families
With a week old ‘incident’
I want to tell the world
That our branding ‘substitute’
Isn’t margarine or oil
But the fat of workers I knew
I wasn’t fortunate enough to live
But I’ll never work again
I called the FBI
So this won’t happen again
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