Working

Working is very much a kind of arcanum.

It makes you happy, it leaves you no quantum of wantum.

You pursue it when you see it’s lacking,

You curse it when too much your back is cracking.

It disturbs, enervates, affirms you.

It makes you envied of ‘em.

It takes away what little of love there was

procured for you in total each young annum.

September 1990

Ruggero Deodato