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By dint of unflagging effort

from Sydney, Sydney by Bud Petal

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Yet again I’m making hay, making both ends meet,
My face thickly mottled with furrows of worry.
Yet again I’m slouch-hatted, working by dint of unflagging effort.

A millstone around my neck is of little moment
When I don’t own what I make anyway.
For whom do I plug away, claw at my spade and wheel?

And mother always said,
“A slave for a wage is worse than a slave,
At least the bosses take care of you.”

When I come to sell my wares,
Made by caring and callused hands,
I still keep my person.
But when I come to sell my labour,
I yank the teeth out of my dignity.

Selling myself pell mell, lashing up the menials,
One more delectation in someone else’s pockets.
Yet they who made the piper should call the tune.

And mother always said,
“A slave for a wage is worse than a slave,
At least the bosses take care of you.”

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from Sydney, Sydney, released February 2, 2019

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Bud Petal Sydney, Australia

Bud Petal’s music has been described as “cerebral art-folk”, “a true outsider, a freak-folk wunderkind”.

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