The very angry feeling
that’s seeping from your words spurred
Achilles’ hubris
and darkness of soul that flows
uncontrollably
from displaced anger’s passion.
Your Appropriations Guild
distills needs from wants.
There’s no power seekers here
nor money grabbers,
or proud perfectionists who
insist that we adhere to
dogmatic pretense.
Your guild, Diane, as you prove
each day, must fulfill
the need for balance between
the advance of each person
and the frugalness
that secures the communal
reason to spend funds
expeditiously with care
to forswear against any
nepotism or
favoritism. Therefore
your guild must be filled
with the same passion displayed
by your zeal that will steel us
from our naive
imperfections, but without
misdirected rants
that just might plant unfounded
accusations impounded
upon innocent
young, naive thinkers seeking
reassurances.
[Marlene]
It is my great pleasure to
endeavor to ask your aid
for the disclosure
of the internal workings
of stewards’ kernel
character that forwards their
help to the community.
Grant my eternal
gratitude for paternal
kindness, instruction
and patience you’ll afford my
young friend, Grace, who’ll speak frankly
of her frustrations.
She is the daughter of Shey
Doyle, so she has
familiarity but chose
to forgo carrying coins.
[Grace]
Like my grandfather,
Donald Doyle, my mother,
Shey, wanted to play
a superstrong, protective
role to serve the whole body
and soul of those who
would carry Joe’s Honor Coin,
but the high ethics
that your banner depicts was
engraved on their souls before
coins were pocketed.
So, I waived off the coins as
a redundancy.
What I see is a mainstream
society with taxes
as a money scheme
to glean funds from every
money making source
to fund the public course that
benefits the good of all
who call this land, “Home.”
The vast array of police
who protect and serve
deserves their fair share from that
public coffer that likewise
offers recompense
for public education
as needed expense
to assure literacy
and a strong competency
in mathematics
needed for monetary
excellence at least.
Hence, this short list can grow long,
but you can see the degree
of certainty that
I possess when I confess
your repetitive,
fine structures do not offer
something else than what occurs
in our mainstream
society at present.
That is what I see.
[Herman Thursting]
Well said, Grace. Your perception,
without question, is quite keen,
but it seems to me
that the semblance of surface
features are but the
entrance to the heart of the
soul that permeates the whole
of all those structures
whose future fate will be to
continue to make
harmonious life or cause
caustic, chaotic harsh strife.
I’m Herman Thursting
from Compton’s Legality
Guild filled with lawyers
and apprentices with clerks
who unequivocally
will never shirk the
skilled work exemplified by
Compton’s fine lawyer,
William Hastings, the Third, who
altered lives for the better
at Compton’s request
to make the best from very
bad situations.
I am William’s third cousin
who interned under his watch
when he confirmed my
membership to Compton’s guild
to fulfill any
coin carrier’s legal need
and to heed his high standards.