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Array ( [sid] => 33132 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Minimum Wage [time] => 2004-01-29 17:26:45 [hometext] => not even enough to get gas......... [bodytext] => So little pay
for so much work.

I work till my hands
feel to bleed.

A meager six fifty
an hour for all my efforts.

Yet I can't seem
to get more.

I work my hands
down to the bone

But when I ask for a raise,
am always turned down.

They think for my age,
that is enough.

But do they forget
the rocketed gas price?

They might have enough
but I don't.

Minimum wage
just isn't enough.

I've tried to explain
why I need it so much.

Why I deserve the extra
just another dollar.

I tried to tell him
that I can't get it from mom.

Who seems to think
I should have enough.

And dad who won't
buy my clothes.

Because I have a job
to take care of it.

But minimum wage
just isn't enough! [comments] => 2 [counter] => 221 [topic] => 43 [informant] => Elf [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )

Minimum Wage

Contributed by Elf on Thursday, 29th January 2004 @ 05:26:45 PM in AEST
Topic: oops

So little pay
for so much work.

I work till my hands
feel to bleed.

A meager six fifty
an hour for all my efforts.

Yet I can't seem
to get more.

I work my hands
down to the bone

But when I ask for a raise,
am always turned down.

They think for my age,
that is enough.

But do they forget
the rocketed gas price?

They might have enough
but I don't.

Minimum wage
just isn't enough.

I've tried to explain
why I need it so much.

Why I deserve the extra
just another dollar.

I tried to tell him
that I can't get it from mom.

Who seems to think
I should have enough.

And dad who won't
buy my clothes.

Because I have a job
to take care of it.

But minimum wage
just isn't enough!

Copyright © Elf ... [ 2004-01-29 17:26:45]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Minimum Wage (User Rating: 1 )
by Shadow on Thursday, 29th January 2004 @ 05:50:20 PM AEST
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This was a good poem. It expresses how many of us who get paid next to nothing feel.

Re: Minimum Wage (User Rating: 1 )
by Mouth on Thursday, 29th January 2004 @ 06:30:03 PM AEST
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I know how you feel. Work is a rat race, and it is impossible to get payed what you deserve. Just know your worth, and do not let anyone tell you different. Great write, I love your poetry, it is worth much more than minimum wage!!!!!!!!!!

Sarah

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