I Pledge Allegiance

my Safeway self-checkout machine
requires no healthScare
  zero smoke breaks
and not one paid holiday

my Safeway self-checkout machine
doesn’t need a lunch
dental care
or a 12th trip to diversity training
nope

no unions
no raises
no feelings
know

my Safeway self-checkout machine
it does what we let it
it does what we won’t
no

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