speaking of usury....

the poet who wrote Paradise Lost, John Milton, made a good living, til he didn't anymore, loaning money to other people.

He was also a civil servant, blind for decades, who died of kidney failure. He had gout. He spoke aloud his poems to his daughters who wrote them down. He left them their mother's father's unpaid debt in his will, and gave all his money, etc to his latest wife.

A complicated person, no doubt.

It gives me into that wordless place, a wonder of the world's greatest artists and how they managed to pay the mortgage or rent and put food on table.

the ghost of little red riding hood

dangerous tools

and dangerous fools usually go hand in hand
cry "OH! The beloved country!"

i read somewhere or heard some time maybe on the radio
the fish in the sea feed our kittys' bellies
Cry "OH! Our beloved country!"

He gave us rigs of steel ol do what you will
Andrew Carnegie, the scotsman of such power and stuff
Cries "OH! MY Beloved country!

Somewhere there is balance,
regulated sworn just and fair
providing compensation
utter upheaval
no more insurance,
no more usury
no third party suits
all solar energy
even ocean freighters

clean, I'd like clean
air and fresh water
and clean I'd like to hear a world that feels clean
and loved,
the land that feels loved
just like me.

When we were very young...

and we believed in freedom
and we fought for peace
with our lives and the things we bought
or didn't buy from china

we joined a new religion
it has no building you'd call
a church
or temple
but it does disclude billions of
sheeple; it has an ivory tower.

Now and then the laws of the land
enter public discourse and debate
in all the blather about insurance
what was said bout doing yer own doctoring?

As they say in this new religion that discludes billions
"oh well, cheesy puffs."
As in, "too bad, you lose."
jus sayin.

I've a list, being a list maker,
of all the goods needed for a home apothocary.
I take a cavelier approach to death
and a death lazer to decay.
When it is time to go, it is time to go
and a real lady and or mensch knows when it is time to go,
but til then, she'd just as soon be useful.

There are tinctures for this, and powders for that, odorless cleansers, and disinfectants of different kinds.

bach flower remedies, mercury chelations, gut cleansers, you name it.

And here's the big but and its a very big butt, if perfection is what yer seeking, don't come here.