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Gold Digger
He always loved to write
But when he came to college and saw the writers
with their dirty hair and torn clothes
he threw his pen and paper away
and so he looked around and saw
The doctors, whose beneviolent behavior disgusted him
but whose car's appearence intrigued him
The Lawyers, whose law suits bored him
but whose Armeni ones enthralled him
The Engineers, whose math confused him
but their large rings he understood
And so at fity, he saw his face made ugly
By plastic surgeries, corperate burgarlary, and so many hurried things
Once so clear, his life was a hopless cloud
muddled by fancy cars, TV stars and high end bars
and he could not quite tell why it was
He loathed himself as his fortune grew bigger
But as for his wife,
He secretly hated her because she was a gold digger

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This piece was inspired by the conflict between greed and what we truly enjoy. A life focused on greed and making money rather than enjoyment leads to an immense amount of suffering and can leave us disgusted with ourselves. Often, when we are irritated or frustrated with the things or people around us, that frustration comes from our own disdain for the decisions we make that cause us suffering. The man's inability to see the cause of his suffering from greed contrasted with the ability to see it in his wife represents how what may be clear from an outside perspective becomes conviluted for the self to realize.