L Milton Hankins Poet Quatrain

Greed

About all your possessions, you blab
You’re trying to dream up a need ~~
Scooping up everything you can grab
I call that, unquestionably, GREED!

Written June 21, 2022
Submitted to "Greed Poetry Contest"
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Robert Gorelick June 23, 2022 at 5:47 PM So true, even if we win the rat race, we are still rats! Except during Miller Time, when you must reach for all the gusto you can get! Good one Milt! L Milton Hankins June 24, 2022 at 11:13 AM Thanks so much, Robert. So true. You have a marvelous weekend.

Caren Krutsinger June 23, 2022 at 2:21 AM "scooping up everything you can grab" - this is often the case, and why hoarding puts stress on all of us. L Milton Hankins June 23, 2022 at 7:57 AM Indeed. Just a hint of a shortage and the greedy make a raid on the grocery shelves.

Rico Leffanta June 21, 2022 at 8:55 PM It seems billionaires believe they can take it with them if they escape to another planet? Imagine the food and housing that could have been purchased with the $19-million paid to have lunch with Warren Buffett . . . . .Keep the hearse waiting! Aloha! L Milton Hankins June 22, 2022 at 9:26 AM I agree with you wholeheartedly, Rico. The more they have, the more they want...until it becomes astonishingly outrageous.

Tom Cunningham June 21, 2022 at 12:46 PM There's far too much greed in our world Milton, good thing is they take none of what they've accumulated when they leave this existence Tom PS, hope everything went okay today. L Milton Hankins June 21, 2022 at 4:35 PM Tom, I'm pretty tired and doped up, but the surgery went well. I've yet to see a hearse with a safe on top of it! You're right about this, Tom.