Japan's salarymen wax poetic about economy

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As work disappears
My vacation days
increase
There's no home
for me

-- Freeloader

Japan's salarymen -- its lifetime white-collar workers who have an image of plodding through life and work -- are bringing out their inner poets in a contest sponsored by an insurance company, and most of of the poems are about economic loss, according to a BusinessWeek story.

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