Playing Life
you start out a slender pink or blue peg
cede choice as the spinner dictates a fate
pop in a peg to ride shotgun
go into deep debt buying a house
acquire children traded to the bank later
play the market & mostly win
seek revenge with glee
covet white men on white bills
(G.I. Luvmoney)
and on the Day of Reckoning
choose between millionaire or tycoon
but our kind of life is outside all this:
soft snow on green-black pines
empty car idle in the dirt driveway
muddy shoes drying here by the fire
a warm snuggle-nuzzle equaling
all the wealth there is
