Dog-Eat-Dog-World

(As told by a man, who lived in the thirties.)

Sodbusters...wandering....from town to town,
So desperate, as their eyes looked all around!
YOUR JOB looked good! So, you'd better watch out!
For many, hungry unemployed were all about!
A Saskatchewan man, wife and children came, that day,
Needed water and gas, but...before you could say,
"Nice to meet you!", he had replaced YOU,
For a few pennies less....and nothing you could do!
You were OUT and his family moved IN!
Into your house, that was as neat as a pin!
This stranger had made, a better offer, to the owner,
A dog-eat-dog-world!! Everyone was a loner!!
The five or six years, that you'd worked, until now,
Just did not matter, to your employer or how,
You would survive and if you should ask,"Why?"
Your employer could respond...no tear in his eye!
He'd simply say, "I was going under and so...
Now, I'll go under SLOWER, you know."
I grieves me to say, that he wasn't much of a man,
If asked, I'd have taken less, to stay on his land!
But, he didn't give me this opportunity!
A stranger came by and he quickly replaced me!

Pauline Banning

W4-1043-98-D14

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