Spite against his limits,
because money was born
far away from him,
so he had to farm as if
he were working, and God
was a powerful Christian.
Hatred of vanity
the most pained evidence
of his jealousy--the schooling,
the superhuman dollars,
the leisure line
that lays down for the lucky
to walk across. Worked hard
and lived a family. Prayed
the flesh
right off his skin. The afterlife
a living woodchipper--
there to shred in real time
the wicked
into sputtered flecks, and likewise
thresh in reverse: unshred
the birth curse of lowly means
and churn out
a fully shaped tree in full flower.
Not a sequoia of knowledge,
or a birch of exacted revenge.
A willow
of elm, an ash of catalpa,
a rage of buried waste upended.
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