{"id":511,"date":"2007-03-13T18:15:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/03\/13\/machine\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T11:16:09","slug":"machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/03\/13\/machine\/","title":{"rendered":"machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so correct to rise and set<br \/>\nthe day&#8217;s agenda to forget<br \/>\na thousand underbodies who<br \/>\nforgotten can be fired it&#8217;s true<\/p>\n<p>before we eat our breakfast grains<br \/>\nand read the news and feel the pains<br \/>\nof earthly strife that has occurred<br \/>\nlet&#8217;s smile and give the wife a word<\/p>\n<p>and as we don our business suit<br \/>\nand contemplate the institute<br \/>\nwe will disband to save a buck<br \/>\nand fire the staff; they&#8217;re out of luck<\/p>\n<p>the morning drive could be so fine<br \/>\nif other cars got out of line<br \/>\nand left the road for me alone<br \/>\nso I can drive while on the phone<\/p>\n<p>and who are all the lazy louts<br \/>\nwho fill the streets and lie about<br \/>\nwithout a care and unemployed:<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s wrong with them? I&#8217;m so annoyed!<\/p>\n<p>I love the way my life has turned<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve everything I&#8217;ve ever yearned<br \/>\nfor; it&#8217;s the truth my world is perfect<br \/>\nall I need is more in surfeit<\/p>\n<p>I earn more than all the workers<br \/>\nin my country and all others<br \/>\nIf you think I make too much<br \/>\nyou can go to jail, for such<\/p>\n<p>a thought is treason in our laws:<br \/>\nand can send you north because<br \/>\nyou think money is a crime<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s how you end up doing time<\/p>\n<p>so, my friend, I do suggest<br \/>\nthat you decide to make the best<br \/>\nof being poor for that&#8217;s the way<br \/>\nI get rich, and rich I&#8217;ll stay!<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t be offended by my wealth<br \/>\nit&#8217;s just what I deserve; my health<br \/>\nunlike yours, is perfect, so<br \/>\nyou&#8217;d best be calm and let it go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so correct to rise and set the day&#8217;s agenda to forget a thousand underbodies who forgotten can be fired it&#8217;s true before we eat our breakfast grains and read the news and feel the pains of earthly strife that has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/03\/13\/machine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dramatic-monologue","category-poetry","category-political-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}