The key: Poverty destroys
sirens, rejects the fluttering,
alluring solutions that
gyrate, sometimes tediously,
among the more voracious
fishes in the great freshwater
aquarium of problem solvers.
It clips the wings of simple
answers and do-gooders, and
blasts Babylonian policymakers
with the furnace breath of
ten thousand dragons, until,
trembling bodaciously, they
slip backward into plentitude,
wash the dirt from their hands,
and heave the sanctimonious
sighs of martyrs and lesser saints.
(c) 2017, by Hannah Six
Photo: Amartya Mandal
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