perspective

We are too clean
the engaged appendix erupts
because it is under-worked
by our too clean world

This explains how someone
living in a mud hut
can go a lifetime
without medicare

Who would have thought
all those years ago
good old Proctor & Gamble
was a merchant of death?

About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.
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