Petty

by Mark Rawlins   Jul 19, 2015


You're a petty little man
With a petty little life,
In your petty little house
With your petty little wife.
In your petty little office,
At your petty little desk,
You have petty little workers
That you bully and you pesk.
You have petty little worries
And petty little cares,
Creating petty little problems,
Splitting petty little hairs.
You have petty little arguments,
And petty little quarrels
About your petty little politics
And your petty little morals.
To make petty excuses
For voting for the Tories,
You tell petty little anecdotes
And petty little stories.
Planning petty little schemes
With your petty little friends,
For your petty little purpose
To meet you petty little ends.
You flash your petty cash
In your petty flashy car
With its petty little gadgets ....
You are petty bourgeois.

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