Dont Seize Debtor By the Neck
Don’t seize a bad debtor by the neck
Nor the man who did your chances wreck:
A seized neck gives not back a lost chance,
Your mistempered palms not for a glance...
Some seize necks when their wives get a peck
Not in secret, in an open deck
And they don’t care when owners’ feet dance
To the beat of enthused ambulance!
It’s a manual hanging of a culprit,
Witness to keep shaking in spirit,
Sin of murder not washed in any beck
To your claim “God always forgives.” Oh Heck!
Then, Bad Debtor you might grab on his shirt
Making sure, though, on your palms not a dirt
You don’t dream of nearing his wife’s skirt:
From her lips the latest insults shall squirt…
Yes, don’t seize your debtors by the neck
It won’t prove you have not your own speck.
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