McWages

Never let a clown do your payroll

I tried eating at McDonalds

That clown is just to weird

You shouldn't rip the workers off

where mammal flesh is seared 

God knows what's going on back there

When no one else is looking 

Perhaps they're frying donkey dicks 

Is that what they've been cooking 

I tooled on down to Burger King 

Get some chicken nuggets 

They told me we're on strike a*****e

Cross our line and suck it

We're reaping vengeance on the King 

For keeping wages down 

So we started urinating 

Into the king's ground round 

Taco Bell and Immigration 

Illegal meat surprise 

I'm pretty sure it's Burro balls 

Inside those Nacho pies 

I'm picking hooves out of my teeth 

Digesting old horse shoe 

Perchance I ate a Unicorn 

I'm shitting rainbows too 

Eating from a Colonel bucket 

Pounds of feet and gizzard

Frying cats and collarbones

Witch's brew and Lizard

Paying peanuts gets you monkeys

slinging s**t with rage

Cut off the corporate payroll teat 

raise the minimum wage 

Author's Note

By not paying their workers a living wage many corporations are welfare recipients because their employees have to rely on food stamps and government housing to survive. Coincidence? No, it isn't. It's the new America. The rich get richer and the rest of us can order from the dollar menu with our EBT card.

Reviews

[Ashley N. Philyaw]

I love this. Hands down, I couldn't agree more, as a person who works for a fast food place, if it wasn't for me being married, I'd be homeless. I could not afford my rent in a one bedroom apartment. I'd never even get approved! Raise it high, or maybe we just need to move!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Ashley

[TL Boehm]

raises her mcstoner in salute. Keeping people fat, and stupid is the way - you realize that, right? As if I need to tell you...I know you know. I read your poems.
Burro balls. I'm sorry - that was just so funny I couldn't get past it.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanks TL.........

[Shaquana Adams]

One thing we can do is to stop eating fast food. I'm not a vegetarian or anything, but it's not like they are known for being particularly hygienic or generally healthy. It may not help the workers, but it's better than supporting companies we know we shouldn't support for various reasons.
-QuanaWana

[Baby Ricochet]

thanks for stopping by Shaquana

[Cascara (aka Sprint Goe..]

I always knew McDonalds was notorious, but I never knew that it would follow the concept of "rich getting richer, poorer getting poorer" when it came to its employees and employers. Interesting fact.

This is a very bold and brave write. Kudos to you for being strong enough to express your opinions on controversial topics.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Spirit

[Cascara (aka Sprint Goes Cascading!)]

you're welcome

[s y e]

I love how you speak the truth in your writes. This should really be a wake up call to people. If we stopped going there, they'd have no choice but to change it or close it down... Which let's face it, wouldn't be a bad thing.

[icelandicblue]

A living wage...there are too many working poor in this country. That is why 1 in 7 adults need help with food stamps and 1 in 4 children in this country are fed with food stamps. Once again, it is appalling.

[Draven]

It's never just the awesome points you make that attract my attention, but the interesting and highly creative ways that you express them.

[Leigh]

These places will stay open as long we keep going there, I went to KFC for my sons birthday and felt sick afterwards

[MAD ENGLISHMAN]

This is a hard hitting piece. The use of comedic poetry has quite an impact. I don't know what's going on over there as we don't get any news about US domestics. We had a similar problem. Chief banker bonus was 2 million pounds but they couldn't raise the lower rank wages by 2%.

[Tai Ryens]

You always speak the stunning truth. Well done.