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Zero Hours

from Inhuman Resources by Tom Kingsley

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The horrors of the gig economy and what we need to do to stop them.

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Zero Hours

I feel I’m dying every night,
I’m sleeping on my feet,
I’ve always loved the daylight,
but we hardly seem to meet.
Through missing days, I slumber,
through the nights I work in hell.
I clock on as a number,
but I clock off as a shell.
I’m a “zero hours” employee
without the time to cry.
The irony is killing me,
but I can’t afford to die.
Let’s sharpen up our pitchforks
and build the barricades.
Let’s all clean the guillotine
and man the palisades.

I’m working so their cash will flow,
not trickle down to me.
I’m sweating so the C.E.O.
can fly across the sea,
all the way, on a working day,
to a shameless Cayman Isle,
where he can stash a load of cash
from my work and his guile.
I’m a “zero hours” employee
without the time to cry.
The irony is killing me,
but I can’t afford to die.
Let’s sharpen up our pitchforks
and build the barricades
Let’s all clean the guillotine
and man the palisades.


I'm just a part in their machine
expendable as dirt
No more individual
than a polyester shirt
I've been made in The UK,
pay homage to Mammon,
I've equal rights to trilobites
My work goes on and on

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from Inhuman Resources, released September 5, 2022
Tom Kingsley - vox.

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Tom Kingsley Newport, UK

Tom Kingsley (aka Brian Phillips) has been a poet for 50yrs and thinks he might just be getting the hang of it. Always trying to look at life, even the grotesques and gargoyles of the world, with humour, he hopes to bring about regime change, revolution, and the salvation of nature by scribbling a few words and then singing or reciting them into that new fangled gramaphone contraption. Iechyd da. ... more

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