Poems; writen here so I can find them easily lol
The Market Economy ~ Marge Piercy
1 Suppose some peddler offered
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you can have a color TV3 but
your baby will be
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born with a crooked spine;
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you can have polyvinyl cups
6 and wash and wear
7 suits but it will cost
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your left lung
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rotted with cancer; suppose
10 somebody offered you
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a precooked dinner
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every night for ten years13 but at the end
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your colons dies
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and then you do,
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slowly and with much pain.17
You get a house in the suburbs18 but
you work in a new plastics
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factory and die at fifty-one
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when your kidneys turn off.21 But where else will you work?
22 Where else can
23 you rent but smog City
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The only houses for sale25
are under the yellow sky.26
You've been out of work for27
a year and they're hiring28
at the plastics factory.29
Don't read the fine print,
30 There isn't any.