Take A Chance On Inequality

The morality of gambling
should be less that it entertains
the great mass of the poor,
as week by week they seek
a wealth they can never win,
and more that the virtue
of gambling is how it disguises
justifying the rich getting richer
whilst it presents everyone
as 'having a chance', when chance,
and wealth, are so unequally distributed.

In that respect gambling
is nearly as consistently moral
a force in society as banking is.

Morality relies in justified poverty
for making opportunity for the few.     

The More Laws Multiply

they more they divide those they rule over.
The more one party or gender decides for all.
The more they will normalise exempting themselves
from the rules they make. The more they reduce
the the respect that the law would afford if equally applied.
But in an indifferent world none of us can know
how much law matters; human history is a dustbin,
full of how we misdescribe and are misremembered.