Humility Collection - 2002
The will you were born with
Is at your command.
Your choice is to use it
Or invite others lend a hand!
It's hard to hold your head up high
Take those thrusts of wits too dry
Your neck exposed upon the block
To stoop but once invites the chop.
Legal Arguments
Legal arguments, like the people who live off them
Are there to be broken by the people who enter them.
Verbal agreements and good intentions
Can cloak the motive "exploitation"
Of an obviously weaker situation
A gift as a deal is misrepresentation.
The Elbow Room
The Elbow Room is where I've roamed
Lithe Willoughby and Rowena found
Barmaids true yet not unkind
Oblivious to the unsound .mind
With Winston Peters and his band
At election time in Auckland town
Or Team Alinghi's Tim Gurr stand
Black heart bitter and rejection frown.
Wayne Brown did the dog shit bit
Jumped o'er Board the TV go slow
Slaters under stones, bottomless pit
Jonah ever cheerful on his elbow.
On the GEM report
You made the rules
We follow them
Keeps you fat, us thin
Don't complain if
There isn't much more
Your greed keeps us all poor
You wanted power
To help deflower
The genius in any miss
You band together
For proclamations
Just common misconceptions
Gold, wealth and power
Abused and hoarded
Is why we're all thwarted
Good Ideas are a
Dime a dozen
Bankruptcy a reward for nothing
Power based on
Fear of failure
Is the usury in slavery.
Humble Volition
Better listen to the little people
Unaccustomed to the steeple
Those immune to inculcation
The media of self admiration
Avoiding traps of real compulsion
Legislation and frustration
Expressing in so many ways
That true volition always pays
Acts of courtesy and kindness
Often an amateur performance
Keep knowledge in the library
Natural selection best for you and me.
(written 24/10/2002 Louis Vuiton Series)