3/12/2004

It is difficult
to recognize
when
a desirable opportunity
has come knocking
in a world
governed
not by
ways and means
for getting jobs done
that need doing
but by expedience
in which deception
is
the drug of choice
and
no life
human or other
is more important
than profit
so much beneath you
that
getting your hands
dirty
is not
what is at stake
the work
deciphering
with reasonable accuracy
whether
you are taking part
in the degradation
everywhere
mistaken for achievement
worth seeking
or
using it to fertilize
the life of
something better.