To the abundant and newly unemployed we sing

We croon sometimes jolly for those with time free:

To search for a job can be drama, farce or tragedy

Depending on the spirit and resources you bring.

We want you to know you search not alone,

And perhaps give you some mild heart’s ease

With videos, humor and news that hopefully please:

The truth is for income your future’s still unknown.

We can each be fed up with ruts and drudgery dreaded

We might wish money was optional, a take it or leave it

Oh that there be some magic axe to cleave it

But somehow survival and lucre are for common life wedded.

Hark! Some have spurned money and dollars earned:

Exchange and barter are community bonds re-learned.

-By Aurelio Montemayor via iget2work

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