The choice to go
into politics, industry,
work and fleece millions
out of their hard earned dough,
by casually calling it an investment,
when really it nothing more
than gambling on a higher
stage, place your bets,
roulette wheel time,
money as safe as houses
in a time of repossession,
should be seen
as a life style choice,
not to be lauded
or having the craft
of the artist sully their hands
with handouts to those who benefit;
keep the hard working coin
earned out of reach to those
who sit on the corner in pin stripe suits
and similar sounding rhetoric,
they would only waste it
on the spin of the wheel
as they pursue their life style choice.
Ian D. Hall 2016