Fool's Gold (Giving Up The Ghost)

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. - Thoreau

like a well cooked goose

they seek to tether my neck

with their gilded noose

Author's Note

"Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten." - Thoreau