I’ll gave you Mars Attacks!
Said my Mother and smacked their legs
The back of their thighs with the flat of her hand
Nothing scared her
When she had her dander up. The Marxian notion
That capitalism inevitably creates a pool
Of unemployed labour which is used
To prevent wages rising faster than productivity
Was indisputable to anyone
Working in a cotton mill as a machinist
The relative impoverishment of workers
Is an essential feature of the capitalist system
That’s not how Mum would have said it
But it was what she meant by inference
Mars Attacks or Marx Attacks. It makes no difference
Steven Taylor