Use your learning to
Get paid more for the same job
As everyone else
Blast from the Past:
Your education
Gives you the skills to realize
How dumb your boss is.
02/26/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
Category: Poems about Capitalism, Business, and Work
02/14/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
There on the front line
In between the heartless system
And the humans it hurts
Blast from the Past:
Why do we let our
Human lives be confined by
Our inhuman worlds?
02/05/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
I race through the clouds
Of Euphoria, thinking
Work is almost done
Blast from the Past:
Tiring work to just
Stay put. The modern world is
Really a treadmill.
01/06/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
The need for wages
To eat, to relax, to live,
Money’s a prison
Blast from the Past:
We make our money
Just to go and spend it all.
What is the point then?
12/23/25 A New Haiku for a New Day
We didn’t start the fire,
But we profit from the smoke.
Dancing in its flames.
Blast from the Past:
What is this world?
It’s a world of fire and salt
Where nothing is real
Unless it is in ashes
12/22/25 A New Poem for a New Day
Take a college degree.
Wrap it in a crisp shirt
And seal it with a tie
For the next several months, knead out all of its creativity
As it seeks to rise from its station
Roll it with trivial tasks
Until its spread thin across your pan
Then, once you can’t stretch it anymore without tearing
Fire it in your ovenRecipe for a white collar worker
Blast from the Past:
Gain your employment
Earn your opportunity
To obtain freedom
12/15/25 A New Haiku for a New Day
The same tie, same mask
Crowd round your manager
As he does his dance
(This piece of art I saw at a museum yesterday here in Java inspired my poem for today. The artist actually was thinking about societal changes in Kalamatan society here in Indonesia, but it made me personally think about conformity in the corporate world.)
Blast from the Past:
Scrutinizing management,
Flat and unprofitable,
Change is difficult.
09/19/25 A New Haiku for a New Day
Hello to radiant
You could be solowaving
Get your FYP
Blast from the Past:
Using what no one
Can possess to acquire what
No one ought to own
09/11/25 A New Aphorism for a New Day
(My piece for today is an aphorism, instead of a haiku.)
If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you learn to swim, you can scare away the fish and tell him you can’t help him anymore.
Build a factory along the shore that pollutes the waters, and you can make him work for you to earn his good on your wages
Blast from the Past:
When someone’s freedom
Can be turned into profit,
Then the end is nigh.
07/31/2025 A New Haiku for a New Day
Anonymous grief
Of the world: nobility
Of spent achievements
Blast from the Past:
Believe in your dreams
As you become a cog
In the work machine