Here's my first shot. I can't help feeling the shade of Bazza over this one.
Hard Times
In this book Dickens gets analytical:
If the bosses were less hypocritical,
Less hard-hearted swine,
Then things would be fine.
He denies that the answer's political.
Then there's Gradgrind who toils to instill
The precepts of Bentham and Mill
And doesn't give tuppence,
Until his come-uppance,
For kindness of heart and goodwill.
All the honest but gullible workers
Are led to perdition by shirkers
Fomenting unrest
Among the depressed
When they should have gone off to the circus.
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