Monday, April 21, 2014

Charlton Heston Would Dig It

Vehicles and Real Estate, ever-practical excess
Are always one missed payment between held and repossessed.
Almost any thing other than those two, things mundane, things celebrated
Aren't beyond the long arm of legal excuses.  They could be confiscated,
To say nothing of legal tender, which by fiat is deployed,
and can by that same fiat be collected, devalued, destroyed.
Most intellectual property is borrowed, as per the terms of use,
and the physical stuff can be stolen, or ruined by malice or abuse.
No, the only thing I've used or spent that was ever truly mine
Was time.

You can have it when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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