Category Archives: Greed



Need

Why do we
Large-brain mammals
Need so much more
Than all our neighbor creatures?
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Posted in Affluence, Greed, Vanity, Wisdom

Empire

Inevitably, empires rot—
But how?
Sometimes plague
Or drought
Will do one in—
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Posted in Affluence, Greed, Today's News

Ambition

What dark afflictions drive us—gifted, cursed
With what no other animals possess?
I used to think religion was the worst
Disease dementing us—pustular abscess!
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Posted in Conformity, Greed, Religion, Vanity, Wisdom

Economics

Just got the first quarter report—bummer!
Can’t really complain. For thirty-three years
(Mostly with laughter, though sometimes with tears)
We’ve done well. Now? We’ve never been glummer.
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Posted in Affluence, Greed, Poverty

The Way Things Are

It starts in the third grade when that bully,
Fear-weaponed, extorts the pocket pittance—
My lunch money—at recess. Thus, fully,
He dominates the yard; we glance askance. Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Politics

History’s Shape

A
Bit
Of evolution
And there we were,
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Posted in Death, Greed