When I think about the daily grind of
Nine to Five.
I remember sitting in my office chair
As a recent graduate.
Updating my Myspace profile and
Trying to complete Minesweeper,
Because even though I had finished
All
Of my tasks –
I could not leave the office
Until the clock struck Five.
Like some kind of Marxist Cinderella:
The value of commodity objectively measured
By the average number of hours required
To produce that commodity.
But even though I am not an expert in economics
(Or Marxist theory),
I still don’t understand how the excel spreadsheet of
‘People living in the North who also own fridges’
That I was compiling
Somehow became more
Valuable because I was ‘working’ on it