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Toil On...Act Not
by pat medlin → (All Poetry by pat medlin)
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Toil on
Complacent workers
Of weak or fragile spine

We toil for the takers
Act not...
Yet beat our breast and whine

Toil on
While all is taken
Surrendered in our sleep

Act not
Lulled by the music
A herd of bleating sheep  

 


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 Reviews of "Toil On...Act Not"
Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on February 14, 2010
Should the fragile spines bend...but never break?

Georg


Reviewed by Paul Berube
Reviewed on February 13, 2010
Great write, Pat. Well understood too.


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