long hours stretch into long days
as we work ourselves away,
striving to be greater, be better
than all of those who forget us-
who thrive on the pools of our sweat
their workplace minds in unrest.

we work as we've been programmed,
exit our factories so grand,
and end our lives per their plans
filled with regret and torn hands,
corporate burnouts like the rest of them-
weeping graduates beyond condemned.