Stand in line
All we need is
Your compliance
Blast from the Past:
I should fall in line?
For a job? That’s never worth
It in the long run.
04/05/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
Category: Poems about Capitalism, Business, and Work
03/19/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
Glitter that is gold
Just weighs me down. Give me cheap
Confectionery
Blast from the Past:
Money:
Reducing all things
To one scale of diminishing
Value to attain
02/26/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
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.
02/14/26 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