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.