04-08-2023, 11:34 PM
Gold Rush
Fine gold, found gold,
worth its weight in...
well, you know.
It has got integrity
because it still
will be the same tomorrow.
Funny, that, integrity–
it’s why people value gold,
fine gold,
red gold,
yet people it has touched
with its fever
lose that virtue–
their integrity–
as if the metal sucked it
right out of them
into itself.
Fine gold, found gold,
worth its weight in...
well, you know.
It has got integrity
because it still
will be the same tomorrow.
Funny, that, integrity–
it’s why people value gold,
fine gold,
red gold,
yet people it has touched
with its fever
lose that virtue–
their integrity–
as if the metal sucked it
right out of them
into itself.
Non-practicing atheist