Profit and Loss

At what cost, writing?

And at what price is meaning

when sacrificed to profit?

~

Writers profit by

finding meaning and pleasure

in the words that come their way.

Common Profit?

Tell me, my poet

friend, do you think folks mostly

do the best they can?

~

Good folk do their best,

but greedy folk make their buck

at the cost of all the rest.

Would Grow Woods

What if money did

grow on trees – would we change our

currency to leaves?

~

Smarter people would

invest in groves; the greedy

would denude the whole forest.

The Truth Will Set You Free

How does one explain

to a Christian Congress what

“Love thy neighbor…” means?

~

No explanation

necessary. They know but

there’s no profit in caring.