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Gold Digger

May 20, 2021
By Anonymous

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


The author's comments:

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.  


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