Explicit or implied,
“time is money”
rules our lives.
Speed of action
weaponised
through perpetual
profit drive
The ticking hand,
a subtle blade,
cutting out the fat
A vital workforce
cast aside,
a consequence of that
Pursuit of twin
golden calves:
efficiency and growth
The impaired
or weak excluded,
anathema to both.
Despite the pulpit teachings
on divinity of all
Willing folk
dismissed as stats
that read
“sub-optimal.”
Sovereign Scotland
Can retrieve
Our humanity,
And reconfigure
the temporal mess
that plagues society
Scotland’s Time
A poem about time, efficiency, inhumanity, and the hope that the time has come for Scotland to build a healthier society
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