Seven Successful Sins

Is success the trappings of wealth, and the absence of need

Or is the pursuit of money at any cost the sign of greed?

The richest country in the world has a problem with obesity

So the accumulation of riches is the consort of gluttony.

To make the most, by laboring the least, is a popular oath,

But isn't that just a fashionable tribute to sloth?

Is looking good to the opposite sex a modern day must,

And then do we condone the inevitable lust?

When we criticize others on a less fortunate path,

Do we succeed by venting our wrath?

When our heroes are those who don't lack a penny

Doesn't this show we have surrendered to envy?

When our auspicious leaders say god is on our side

Is it true or is it fallacious pride?

To succeed do we have to be sinners?

Or, are the also rans, the real winners?

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Politicians exist to try their best,

For themselves that is; not the rest.

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Economists can always agree on something,

Other economists are wrong on everything.

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The day is bright and cheery

Rather that than dull and dreary

As my mood will swing in line

Like the cone of a forest pine

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The truth is like a dream, hard to remember you once saw it clearly,

Now it’s gone, buried in mists of waking eyes, bleary.

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To conform is to accept, acquiesce, accede, hiding identity,

To rebel is to acknowledge you the individual, original, free.

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I'm superior that's clear to see

so you should try to be more like me

But at best you'll be an imposter,

oh the delicious irony

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The cat, sat, pat

On that mat, splat.

It made no sound,

It didn’t look round,

It was hunting rat.