Halt, Dynamos
Do not work harder than required to work,
Young men should sit around and drink all day;
Laze, laze, ignore the pressure not to shirk.Though poor men may apply to be a clerk,
Because their jobs are not exciting they
Do not work harder than required to work.Rich men, who sell and buy, eat at Le Cirque,
And take their “business trips” to Saint-Tropez,
Laze, laze, ignore the pressure not to shirk.Old men around retirement age who lurk
At desks and hope no tasks will come their way
Do not work harder than required to work.Smart men, in school, who learn with blinding smirk
That coasting through a class still earns an A,
Laze, laze, ignore the pressure not to shirk.Don’t visit every world like Captain Kirk;
Picard knows that the bridge is where to stay.
Do not work harder than required to work.
Laze, laze, ignore the pressure not to shirk.Halt, Dynamos [Dylan Thomas]
From the collection Holy Tango of Literature, by Francis Heaney. Published under the motto:
“The question of what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names is one that has been insufficiently studied in the past.”
[x]#1584 fan donderdag 8 december 2005 @ 23:13:04
