by Will Marcus
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Will Marcus, the pen name for Stanley William Rothstein, is an award-winning short story writer and Professor Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton. He has taught at Lehman and Hunter Colleges in New York and published many books, articles, research papers, poems and short fiction. He has just completed a series of five poems written in free verse that deal with the problems of life in mass society.
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Life’s but an entertainment and a game
Where fate and fortune play and offer fame
Here and there a winner gives a shout
And yet so many poor ones do without.
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Some think this life of ours is all there is
While others thirst for other worldly bliss
Some worship money and the things it buys
While others turn heads upward to the skies.
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Today men worship money when they pray
And read the finance pages day by day
And build giant altars in their homes to cash
And frenzied greed and gluttony make men rash.
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What do they say in all these prayers to heaven?
“Why bring me luck that I may roll a seven
And give me more that I may be more, too.
And heed not the music of distant drums.
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When was pure greed more frantic, out of hand?
When was gluttony more uptight through the land?
Cash reigns supreme, the cause of tribulation
While wealth compels our deepest admiration.
How are poor folks to manage in this maze?