PUNK POETRY: Open Interviews This Afternoon by Josh Crummer

My best friend’s parents warned him about being a garbage man

The customer is always right

Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity

 

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun

 

Do you want to spend the rest of your life flipping burgers? Do your damn homework

 

It’s a good starter job until he graduates

Just a little spending money 

 

Open up another register

 

The average employee age for fast food workers is 27 years

 

You have a family to support

 

It’s not rocket science
 

You don't deserve $15 an hour to flip burgers

 

We support our frontline workers

 

It’s easier to collect unemployment than find a job nowadays

 

Don’t let lack of workers become the next pandemic

 

Where’s my Filet-O-Fish


We’re gonna starve you back to work whether you like it or not



--Josh Crummer

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