Evil Ways

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret. - Thoreau

legs of gout spread like a wish bone about to snap

spitting out toxic junk from an unrequited womb

littering the world with evil

polluting humanity

contaminating truth and decency

tongue moving back and forth like a gun's firing pin

words like bullets

meanings of a flame thrower

trampling fields of clover

breaking through the clasped hands of red rover

chewing up frozen intentions and tossing them about like a snowblower

grooming derision as a lawnmower

sticking out her finger and demanding that you pull it

building condescension like a model kit

growing only choice, select fruits that befit it

Author's Note

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve." - Thoreau