Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Dynamic Waging
by Ross Wilson
Essential workers are retiring early
due to dynamic waging
when wages increase on the demand
put upon key workers during busy shifts.
So Morag, a thirty-three-year-auld
Healthcare Support Worker last year
is now a thirty-four-year-auld millionaire
retired to a villa in Andalucía.
‘Ivrytime a patient buzzed
or a nurse asked, ye busy?
the k-ching o’ a till
rang like a bell in ma heid.’
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