Day Grocer
Reformation Day 2003
with no apologies to Jack London
The day grocer keeps company stores open
while the company provides a stick-on name tag.
The day grocer ensures that store jobs will not be lost forever
while the union calls her a scab,
a traitor to her God, her country, her family and her class.
The day grocer pays taxes and helps the store to do so
while the government condemns her and takes her job away.
Yet the day grocer is no less important
than the stockholder, the union steward, or the bureaucrat.
Without her there would be
no stores, no jobs, no tax revenues, no firefighters
Condemned for working?
If she receives nothing else,
the day grocer deserves our respect.
Reformation Day 2003
with no apologies to Jack London
The day grocer keeps company stores open
while the company provides a stick-on name tag.
The day grocer ensures that store jobs will not be lost forever
while the union calls her a scab,
a traitor to her God, her country, her family and her class.
The day grocer pays taxes and helps the store to do so
while the government condemns her and takes her job away.
Yet the day grocer is no less important
than the stockholder, the union steward, or the bureaucrat.
Without her there would be
no stores, no jobs, no tax revenues, no firefighters
Condemned for working?
If she receives nothing else,
the day grocer deserves our respect.
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