Opium is the religion of the masses

[Paul Welsh]

Opium is the religion of the masses
 
The rich throw us under their mill,
indiscriminately grind our flesh & bones,
yet forbid us poppies to succor
our mental anguish or quite our pitiful moans.
 
erthona
 
©2017 

If this were a conceptual art piece > 'An ode to Friedrich Engels with two typos'.  Morbid intentions of Capital's c.19th industrial waged-slavery.  Under (the) mill' labourers on drugs & diversions, bent smiles inside meagre portions of time left, child labourers fit under moving gears, rickets men & women don't. Maybe stronger & longer? Experiment & expand. Paint more of labour's brutalised physiology against thick cigar yellow breath & tobacco snuff.