Dirt Cheap

A Poem by Pete

The cost of a thing is the amount of life which must be exchanged for it. - Thoreau

lo those dirty deeds

proliferated bad seeds

with all their proceeds

© 2025 Pete

Author's Note

"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made." - Thoreau

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Added on October 18, 2025
Last Updated on October 18, 2025

Author

Pete

Boston, MA

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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..