Extremes

Unacceptably extreme

in 2014 USA to say

I am a  socialist 

but it nauseates me

to read one woman

pays $12,000 for

strappy red shoes

she brags she will

wear only once  while

another woman decides

to skip supper each winter

night to keep the heat on.

I can't keep swallowing the

lie that what we have is what'

we deserve.  Those  of us

with plenty may have earned 

it (or inherited it or married it)

Maybe we made better choices,

or maybe we were just luckier

or born with talents that pay well.

But everybody had a mother.

Easy to remember no tiny baby

 deserves more than any other.

Easy to forget when they grow up.

Hard to stomach responsibility

to care for one another. For me

capitalism unfettered has become

unacceptablly extreme.