"Blessed Rest" [Reflections on Book Capitalism Is Fallen, Elwin Kettner - Chap. 4 - Rest]
Shabbat as one in seven has worked
Millennia, while bosses jerked
Their workers ’round the clock, then some;
More overtime to get things done.When we press in, work all the time,
We start to slip, soon fall behind;
But holidays rejuvenate –
“Make young again” – when breaks we take.Programmers have a shutoff switch,
That every hour or so goes click,
So they can clear their heads, walk ’round,
Come back, see mountain as a mound.“Riel Day” started in our land
When suicide got out of hand;
Mid-February – rates then dropped –
Much better than when nothing stopped.Uninterrupted sleep is blessed,
As we let body, spirit, rest;
Nightshift for some may be okay,
For me it starts a slow decay.So play, and rest, and holidays,
Like Jubilee in ancient days,
Helps us to live our life with zest,
And bring to daylight-hours our best.He says that for economy,
“Corrections” need to be quite free
To float – stop stopping their dissent –
We’re people – life to us is bent –Way out of shape – so shifts emerge
As necessary to converge
Our schemes with mere reality
‘Corrections’ help the real world be.”That’s fine – sabbaticals and such,
For middle-class they vaunteth much;
“Corrections” hit some people more
Than others – such that I abhor –The callousness with which folks speak
Of “necessary” ways to keep
Economy from trickling down
To “nobodies” who live in town.Thanks Lord for this.
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