Leisure?

Time, order, politeness, civility are all their little despotisms Scheduling becomes overscheduling Work degenerates into overwork Being respectful leads to automatism All forms of organization down to the family follow this forward pointing line Until life is cut off from itself and caught in a tangled web Civilizations like Pompeii were buried under tons of volcanic ash For us it is overwork and overproductivity coming down to crush us and kill us like ants. Our leisure time is almost dated like that of a Seurat painting ( An Afternoon on The Grand Jatte The masses finding only a seconds worth of time to breathe before going back to their toil and servitude. It is cariacturish, our time in leisure and says control the way our time is rationed out for us. It has been like punishment to watch the rich and their illusions of ease that seem to carry on forever without stopping!