If unearned wealth can get you caught
then it’s best to live on wages
bought hard in hourly stages
sweat of the brow work your hands wrought.

Work wrought by brow’s sweat and your hands
can include pickaxe and shovel
and pen and words with heart trouble
and the needs of a child’s demands.

A child’s demands are bone deep needs
bound by genome reproduction
strung by DNA instruction
the evolution of next seeds.

The evolution of next seeds
drives the condition of humans
leads us through happy delusions
and drops us head down in the weeds.

Lynne