Work makes us free,
and work makes us ill.
This sickening freedom
is ours to accept or refuse
-within certain limits.
Whatever we choose,
have foisted upon us,
or most likely accept
with reluctant passivity, we suffer.
To make a virtue of our pain
we turn it into a breezy willfulness.
The greater our freedom from pain
the greater the load on others,
the less we feel our own burden.
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