When It Hurts to Live
Well, I’ve been smacked down
By those who say, I do not care
I will not get involved
Happened again, just now
There’s money on the line and
The having of it
Me more than you
Is what matters,
The currency in hell
It doesn’t have to be
It can simply be a resource
But you’ve heard of moneychangers
I must go
Where it will always matter
Where there will be a wilderness
Atop the one that values Earth
And first-making
I don’t know how to make my way
I’m with the eccentric saint (and
aren’t all the saints?) who says
I have no idea where I am going
But if you will, dear one, if only at a distance,
I’ll come with
C L Couch
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clcouch123 
February 28, 2020 at 5:14 pm
There’s always money on the line, and the having of it matters more than anything anyone can imagine. Maybe that’s where the problem begins—lack of imagination, people using all their energies in acquiring cash with no aim in mind other than…acquiring more cash. What do they do with it? Avoid tax? Buy houses they don’t live in? Send their kids to schools that will teach them how to make cash and the kind of friends who will make the acquiring of cash easier? Even the poor aren’t immune. They are like rich people but without the…cash.
February 28, 2020 at 7:02 pm
You’re so right. I had an acquaintance who was an attorney at a sizable law firm. He left to start his own, intentionally smaller group. The problem, he said, was that it was all about making money and more money, nothing more. They weren’t even allowed to enjoy what they had gotten. The focus was only allowed to be on getting more.
February 28, 2020 at 7:35 pm
He was right to get out of the spiral. It turns people into monsters.