Sunday, July 13, 2025

poem

 Priceless

I’ve always been overly protective of any knowledge

I’ve acquired, regardless of effort involved

I’m a hoarder of facts, solutions and hermetically sealed arguments. 

They fill my closets my attics and basements

Each one gets a number and assigned space

In the catbird seats of my patchwork personality.

Like all hoarders I’ve reached the point of believing

My hidden cache is all I really have 

And so I guard it with my life.

It represents my entire net worth.

Even to question it undermines my own profitability.

To doubt would be like hiring my own burglar

And who am I to question the methods that grant

Me the ability to afford this comfortable lifestyle.

My wife and children would starve 

I’d have to leave, shamefacedly, in the pre-dawn morning,

Travel across multiple time zones

To the land of my own ignorance

Seeking to borrow someone else’s wisdom

Which never comes for free


7/13/25

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