The Rev. Dr. Thomas Eggebeen, friend for many, many years, wrote the following response to my poem “One Potato, Two Potato”:

The dreariness of wealth …
utterly boring after a while…
no one’s impressed any longer …
ostentation grows heavy,
like carrying a load of old National
Geographics bound together by twine –
trying to look smart with stuff…
no one cares about.
Ah well … and soon to the graveyard …
the truth hated by all,
but especially by the 1% –
the greatest affront to their sense of
invulnerability.