House of Paine

one third of a nation

I awoke this morning 
with FDR ‘s phrase
ringing 
 in my head 

“ one third of a nation 
ill housed ill fed ill clad ”

biblical sounding
isn’t it 

mighty godly and grand 

I hear
a prophetic wrath
mobilizing
beyond  the horizon 

“ one third of a nation ”

the last great  patrician
his self loving  lilt 
 heavy beyond baring 
with the imminence 
  of  its faultless
indignation 

surely 
a righteous thunder bolt
awaits any such   nation 
that will not act 
and act soon 




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then it's 10 am and I’m 
looking at a news piece 
on the future of American jobs 

same old same old for at least 20 years now 
the gap wider wider wider 

then some boob says 
1/3 of all jobs 

and what else can i think 

one third of a  nation
 this time a job nation 
 
FDR worshipped  land
productive land 
a lot of us did then 
that was the nation 
our productive land 
FDR WAS IMAGINING 
one third a nation 
without productive land 
even in his time that was looking backwards 

now we’re more literal 
we look at ourselves 
we worship 
what we really can have 
jobs
productive jobs
all of us
 what ever point
 of the Klass kompass 
we hail from 
pat prof pleb  prole plug 
 whatever where ever 
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some ones got to produce our daily bread 
we all concur on that 

god  knows 
the times are long gone 
where most of us 
 can fend for ourselves 
so we’re stuck with each other 
to come up with our necessities 

no longer
 can a healthy slice of America 
subsist let alone prosper 
 as a scattered 
 army of Crusoes
fast at work 
hacking a pocket size paradise 
out of raw nature 
 by  steady application
   of a menagerie of humble skills 


today 
if you don’t got the do ray me 
its only  a job
 a 40 hour per week job 
 a wage job 
that can make  just anybody 
 into a
productive
self supporting    somebody 


 but there are jobs
 and there are jobs 
 and today 
one third of all new jobs 
are  mcjobs 
 
 the kind of 
jobs  proles get
when they sell their time on the market
 
since a prole by definition 
 has nothing but his/her
simple ass  time to sell 
he/she gets  mcjobbled 

not like a pleb 
not like one of our 
 son of liberty
 daughter of the republic
 plebs

a pleb has a skill 
a marketable skill 
or a trade or an angle or a gift 

some kind of extra 
besides just a chunk of their time 
their willing to make available 
for use at a price 
 

then again
theres the american way 

attitude is the key
 under the red white and blue 
attitude
 proper positive attitude 
 
attitude can transform 
your inside self image
into an outside reality 

on this basis
the american way basis 
there are no prole jobs 
only prole people 

naturally inside
many a mcjob  head
a pleb
is struggling to brake out 
so by acceptible american counting standards 
plebs abound in mcjob land 

quitters are the only proles 
quitters and sour sams 

now unfortunately 
for some of these plebheaded proles
the angry impatient ones 
 proler bears as they might be called 
mcjobs can be 
jobs of quiet desperation 

i venture to guess
 mcjobbery is over stocked
 with plebheads like that 
size 12 egos in a size 6 job 

if all it takes is self definition
then  any old  prole 
with a sense of career climbing
and the prospect of a
 fatally  broken escalator 
 in front of them 
 is a plebsorehead
ready to blow 
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  another short take 


jobs like credit are rationed 


how you like that idea 

 markets if they don’t clear don’t 
work as markets seem to work
they don’t work impersonally
 like the one armed bandits in vegas 
cool clearing markets 
don’t make choices 

when the markets done clear 
choices are made gaps exist 
there’s in and out
 not just more and less 
 
people get to say yes and no 
bottom line people

 with an eye on their own happiness not yours 
when markets clear ypou don’t notice that choice
its a result of forces bigger then the players 
 no discretion only rules and working thru the balances 

digest that pair of factals 
and maybe you’ll 
come join 
the hard party
with me 

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welcome to the next stage of your pilgramage 
Sister Christian and Brother Bumpo 

“ well i hear 
the oxen at least
 get plenty of straw  
 around these parts ....... ”

since we all must now get jobbed

all of us not portfoliioed
or self employably fine 

all of us 
yes all of us 

we all must 
everybody 
must get jobbed 

 and keep jobbed
till we’ve sold say 90,000
of our best hours 
to some other guys 
 profit center
 
remember fellow rodeo clowns 
earnable wage rate 
  and personal  credit score are uz 

and 
for one third of job nation 
who go forth 8/5/50 
 or 10/4 / 50 
each year 
( now please take it slow  
 savor this bon bon )

 mcjobs await 

 for the foreseeable future 
 nothing but mcjobs and mcmore jobs 

and after the numbing  up 
 and the dumbing down 
during the great commute back to the paddock 
as you’re dreaming of potential 
fun and frolick 
remember 
a mccredit score confines you 

your card’s
 a flock fucker 
a rope and ride critter pass 

whats available on it for
the likes of 
 a big time    sailor ?

“ hot sucking damn 
  8.50 per hour  
and a 0 k credit line 
and it lasts as far as the eye can see 
put me done for that  man
where can I fucking sign up  !!!! ”
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