Don't put on your face today
Please wear ours instead
Inoffensive corporate drone
Looks better on your head
Don't wear your favorite t-shirt
Don't wear your pretty clothes
Just wear the corpo uniform
Be company head to toe
Don't think your independent thoughts
Or dream your fondest dreams
Just dream of corporate capital
Your place among our team
Don't think of trying to be unique
Smother your inner glow
'Cause if you need to be yourself
We'll have to let you go
SR Romney 2024
My body is on a call at work
My brain is online scrolling reddit
My love is curled up in her cat bed
My dreams are taking a smoke break
My thoughts are repeatedly playing the same song
My fears still hangout in the parking lot
My soul is still covered in soot
My hate lies dormant in it's cavern
My past pokes it head out from the fog
My future walks by my window
My thumbs finish typing this poem
My present finally hits publish
SR Romney 2024
Zombie walk your way to work.
The company wants you dead.
The living complain too much about
Worker's rights, overtime
Families, hopes, and dreams.
Shamble to the coffee machine,
Moan and groan beside the water cooler,
Admire the brains of your executives,
Because clearly they deserve it.
Work until you're done,
Go back to your grave
Stare at your coffin lid
Until they summon you.
Be grateful,
There a zombies in Zimbabwe
That don't even have coffins
So zombie walk your way to work
Like a good little undead
SR Romney 2024
I first accepted my cage after careful consideration.
I weighed the pros and cons of the different variations.
I asked my friends and family if they thought it was a good fit.
I asked myself, "In five years, do you see yourself cooing contentedly
As you peer through the bars?"
I told myself I was lucky to find such a nice cage, with such sturdy construction.
I told myself I should be grateful.
Now the cage has started to rust, and shakes violently in the wind
At any moment the cage might fall apart, might disappear.
When it does, will I find a prettier cage?
Or will I finally take the chance to fly away?
SR Romney 2024
Time to rev your engines!
Hurry up and wait!
We need you taut and ready
For an unspecified date.
We need you to be vigilant,
To guard, to anticipate
The problems that may never come.
So hurry up and wait.
– SR Romney 2023
I’m the stop gap, the bottleneck
The pack mule of this future tech
The domino you shouldn’t flick
The golden one, the crucial brick
The dam who holds the torrent back
The jar without a single crack
Or so I hope, but worst of all
No one knows I’m about to fall.
– Shaman Romney 2021
Taking a day off
Is just work postponed
The emails keep coming
The pile keeps growing
The problems get worse
So my mind can’t rest
As I cannot relax
And forget about work
Because work never rests
– Shaman Romney 2017
End road work
The road has worked hard enough
No one cares about road’s rights
Always being put down by people smarter than them
Being walked all over
It’s not fair
Roads have lives too
They constantly cross each other’s paths
How would you like working 365 days a year, huh?
– Shaman Romney 2017
Work me when I wake up
Work me every day
Work me til there is no other wayWork me til I’m anxious
Work me past too tired
Work me past the date that I’m expiredWork me when you want to
Work me when you can
Work me to the shell of a bitter manWork me til I’m hopeless
Work me when I’m broken
Work me with false promises you’ve spokenWork me past the bleeding,
Work me to the core
Work me til I’m not human anymoreWork me past exhaustion
Work me to the bone
Work me past the yearning to go homeWork me in my nightmares
Work me past my dreams
Work me til I’m ripping at the seams.Work me til I’m screaming
Work me as l cry
Work me past the point of asking whyWork me when I’m tired
Work me when I’m done
Work me til you lose another one.Work me where I’m standing
Work me in my bed
Work me til I’m on the ground, dead.Work me past my mourning
Work me past my legacy
Work me til there’s nothing left of me.
– Shaman Romney 2016
Work has overloaded my brain.
My emotions and thoughts drip down the drain,
Which I cannot hope to ever regain
Until from work, I do abstain.
But work moves forward like a train,
And so, I hop on once again.
Wishing this time I will remain
Happy, healthy, and (mostly) sane.
– Shaman Romney 2015
Shame on The Universe 