PRINCIPLED PEOPLE
Have a good day today?
Find a more efficient way?
Or, even better, show another
how to improve?
I sing of the attractions of virtues,
virtues that let you go directly to action.
They excise excesses in choices,
that morass of reflection, other's opinions and options.
I was brought up by a neighbor
for giving her child an unbelted ride.
He was one of the kids who piled inside.
A twenty foot drive to the garage
stirred the roar.
You may have friends who save.
Financing a hoped for future outweighs
the discounted value, today.
Do they ever come out and play?
The economist,Martin Bronfenbrenner,
chided his profession
for its irrational passion for dispassionate rationality,
giving the dismal science a tongue-in-cheek smile of reality.
Gym rats, with rigor, day in and day out, work out with vigor.
I chastised,
every chance I could get,
a friend who smoked cigarettes
until I discovered my vices.
Have a question? Get it answered.
No questions today? An answer’s on the way anyway
from one who can‘t wait to explain
life
in a one sentence cliche.
If you can get by on the limited attitude arsenal
which feeds that irrational passion
you can be healthy, risk free, or financially secure.
Pick one from the list. There are others.
The trick is not to confront your rules
with your neighbor’s.
DRK
1/26/12
