A Perspective

Changes

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When you see things

In a different light

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Recently “had” to

Pick up a package

At the facility of

One of those

Behemoth carriers

Of small packages

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First it was amazing

To watch the “sort”

Down a conveyor belt

Out of a large trailer

Into the many waiting

Hands of the sorters

Into the many many

Burgeoning route trucks

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Beyond its initial

Appearance of being

What it was it looked

Like a scene out of

A Las Vegas movie

In the back room

Counting the money

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Upon later reflection

It was more like a scene

In a drug distribution

Operation of moving

Profitable product in

Again a closed room

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If either were true

Society’a “authority”

Would be called in

To cease both “crimes”

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One to keep the “drug”

(Buying stuff to feel good)

Out of the “addicted’s”

Hand and head “vice”

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The other to arrest

The gross profiteers

Profiting off of a

Scourge to community’s

Health and well being

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If in one hour they moved

A thousand packages

Averaging $15 a package

That is $15.K an hour

Just going to the middleman

Distributor corporation

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The “problem” is unfortunately

Not the problem it is how this

Society operates as a whole

Beyond commoditized necessities

Buying stuff from people who

Make stuff so they to have

Money to buy more stuff too

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Meanwhile not all the people

Have rooves over their heads

Or adequate food in their bellies *

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I would not be a very good

Observationalist if I did not

Recognize that I too

Contributed to this

Planetary crime

Being there to pick-up

A package as well

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Only to find out

It didn’t work and

Didn’t need it

In the first place

Only to turn up missing

Unable to return it

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Side note:

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This was occurring at

One company in a small

City in a sparsely

Populated state

To which when I first

Arrived at 4:00 o’clock

In the morning mistook

Me as an applicant

Looking for a job

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Whisked me immediately

To a room to fill out

An application like they

Would have hired me

On the spot to start now

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“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”

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– Angelo Devlin

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When you’re stepping over a homeless guy on the sidewalk…

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Does it ever occur to you to think

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“Wow – maybe our system doesn’t work?!”

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– Bill Hicks