The Wealthy Don’t Want To Watch

The very wealthy do not want to watch

poor people paring their toenails.

Yet this is what happened one warm summer day

in a golf course lounge.

A poor golfer, in all senses of ‘poor,’

put his naked foot on a coffee table and clipped away:

clip, clip. Pieces of toenail flew here and there

and the sounds of clipping continued to conclusion.

The foot, I really cannot say, stank, was not so close as to tell,

but it looked to have played a full 18 with at least an hour of warm-up.

As mentioned above, it was a warm summer’s day.

In consequence, several letters were written,

and it never happened again to my knowledge.

But it happened that once, God be praised!

The world is a better place.