You’re taught at home You’re taught in school You’re taught in life You’re taught on television You’re taught by your friends You’re taught by your lovers You’re taught by your enemies The stick and the carrot The stick and the carrot To succeed to succeed to succeed You’re taught by your internet You’re taught by your advertising You must have this you must have that Or you will fail or you will fail And there will be consequence And there will be consequence Such terrible consequence And nobody will want you And nobody will need you And nobody will love you No nobody will love you The stick and the carrot The stick and the carrot And they’ll lock you up Sure they’ll lock you up When you fail to do What you’re supposed to do You’ll end up homeless You’ll end up homeless Or in the nuthouse Yes in the nut house Because nobody’ll want you No nobody’ll want you So you need some insurance Better buy that insurance By getting a job Yes getting a job So you can purchase those things Yes purchase those things Better buy those things For then you’ll have everything Then you’ll have everything That’ll make you happy That’ll make you happy And make them want you And make them admire you Even envy you Even envy you So take that job And answer your emails And get on that internet And buy buy buy And buy buy buy And buy buy buy And bye bye bye And bye bye bye Bye bye You die
Josef Krebs has a chapbook published by Etched Press and his poetry and prose also appears in numerous magazines, including American Writers Review, Mouse Tales Press, The Bangalore Review, and blazeVOX. He’s written three novels and five screenplays. His film was successfully screened at Santa Cruz and Short Film Corner of Cannes film festivals.
