Saturday, June 17, 2017
Two Future Saints
in fistfight re
who’s humbler.
Much verbal too,
but vulgar, never
Faith-Shaking.
And, being Churchmen,
gouging ruled in.
After, a pile of blood
and hair and sweat
and how!
Instant Forgiveness sug-
gested by other illumes,
but delayed.
Today’s Gang
of Saints
more realistic.
Labels: fight, fistfight, forgiveness, gouging, humility, religion, saint
Monday, June 16, 2014
Bold Face
PIN A STINKWEED ON RIGHTIES
KEENING
WHEN GOVERNMENT PAYS
THE PRICE SHOOTS UP. THEIR
GOUGING
CONTRIBUTORS LEARNED IT
WITH MOTHERS' MILK.
THE REST COMPRISED OF
DIVING.
Labels: bribery, diving, diving in certain sports, gouging, government, government contracting, money in politics, politics
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The Bill Collector's Wife
-How'd it go?
-It went.
-Ah the usual gaiety then! But, pray tell, any highlights?
-Got a sobbing grandmother on a gouging pay plan.
-A service! Like doctor, priest, teacher!
She was underwater then?
-House, car, everything.
-I was...being witty.
-Wave a red flag. My brain is fried.
-And is she still heaving?
-Without doubt.
-Buck up, Macduff! Pays our bills. Thus no obnoxious prick calls us.
-I'm the bulldog face of American Pig Capitalism!
-Halt! Before you mix another metaphor! Or wave the
real red flag!
-Too hammered down to be Socialist rebel.
-I wonder if most of them are ditzy utopians, or have choked overmuch on plutocratic gorge.
-I don't need theory. I need a decent job among decent people.
-Rarer and rarer. Way the bosses prefer it.
-Well, now some cheap incendiary booze and letting the TV paint my face.
-Oh joy!
-I used to be a man!
-Miss that part.
-How'd it go?
-It went.
-Ah the usual gaiety then! But, pray tell, any highlights?
-Got a sobbing grandmother on a gouging pay plan.
-A service! Like doctor, priest, teacher!
She was underwater then?
-House, car, everything.
-I was...being witty.
-Wave a red flag. My brain is fried.
-And is she still heaving?
-Without doubt.
-Buck up, Macduff! Pays our bills. Thus no obnoxious prick calls us.
-I'm the bulldog face of American Pig Capitalism!
-Halt! Before you mix another metaphor! Or wave the
real red flag!
-Too hammered down to be Socialist rebel.
-I wonder if most of them are ditzy utopians, or have choked overmuch on plutocratic gorge.
-I don't need theory. I need a decent job among decent people.
-Rarer and rarer. Way the bosses prefer it.
-Well, now some cheap incendiary booze and letting the TV paint my face.
-Oh joy!
-I used to be a man!
-Miss that part.
Labels: bill collection, Capitalism, gouging
Monday, June 29, 2009
While Some Sleep, Others Fret
Late-night radio offers abundance
of credit repair hope. No fee dis-
closed, but I’m guessing a gouge in
The American Capitalist Tradition of
milking the spavined failure. Conformist
Japanese proverb applies: When the nail-
head sticks up you hammer it down.
Labels: credit repair, gouging
Monday, September 08, 2008
At the Oil Museum
-What’s that? Marble cube, gold door. Looks like where priest keeps Host.
GUIDE
It contains the first gouging lie told by an oil executive.
-Good! If the children aren’t reminded of history, they’ll forget it.
GUIDE
We’ll let them have it all right!
-What’s that? Marble cube, gold door. Looks like where priest keeps Host.
GUIDE
It contains the first gouging lie told by an oil executive.
-Good! If the children aren’t reminded of history, they’ll forget it.
GUIDE
We’ll let them have it all right!
Labels: gouging, oil, supply-demand fiction
