Your Next Salary Will Be

Your next salary will be
the fruits of your labour
what you have reaped
on the wrong side
of the Polokwane-line

Your next salary will be
what you’ve made it
the side you chose
in the ideological chess game
that has stymied delivery

Your next salary will be
perhaps a living wage
(and not the wages of sin)
a COSATU living wage
though not of their high office

Your next salary will be
whatever the price you’ve paid

Penned on a Saturday morning train, 26 July 2008, amusing my way through an old Mail and Guardian article “Facing the firing squad with high spirits” (July 18 – 24 2008).

- David Kapp - davidkapp@webmail.co.za