10 May 2007

There Is Only Rent

I should re-read the contract
life is not a toilet seat and you have
no special privileges – never have

what gave you the right to so believe?
– reading Alice in Wonderland?

I am not deceived by mythologies
I read, I am entertained and educated
not trained as you decree
nor do I accept acts of God
– or Fate
as consequences of deeds
done in the last life
or this one or the next.

There is no day of atonement ahead
there is no payback
– there is only rent,
and I will not pay mine
by being made a toilet seat.
© I.D. Carswell 2007-02-04

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