Reward Yourself

If responsibility towards other people
is about apt rewards for good deeds
that are conceived and born good will,
then what does the removal of reward,
as happens to so many who are well meaning, mean?

More responsibility? Even to the point
of rewarding yourself because nobody else will?

In Rural France

the small shops
that sell fresh veg
leave their overstocks,
and the redeemable
but bruised fruit
on the street,
for the poor to take, for free.
That is the sort of
capitalism I like to see.
But how long can that last?

Usury: A Definition

The ancient and modern hymn to Mammon
that was well known of old
where it was written of, disapprovingly.

But since the fourteenth century
the interest in it has made it
the raising agent of modern Capitalism
where it is popular for dividing society,
between those who have accumulated wealth
and those prefer more authentic relationships.