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The World Will Ask for Your Greed, Envy, and Sloth
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TheWorldWillAsk forYour Greed, Envy, and Sloth So write a hagiography of the day And encomiums for the week And thank the food that you eat And remember fondly the bed where you sleep And bless the fresh clean water in your spirit And the dirty filthy dirt in your pockets And the sunburn you took for going to the trouble of it And the paper cut that gave you pause: You are alive, abundant, filled With seeds and blood, able to tame and thumb A cat’s soft life under your fingers—to be so kind, to be so loved— There is a reason to write, There is no reason not to write A hagiography of that woman who went to serve street alcoholics in NewYork during the Great Depression And who are you? What have you done? 75 ...