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THE PIRATE'S BOOTY

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Drink and the devil had done the rest
We wrapped 'em all in a main's line tight

With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
Then a yo heave ho into the sullen swell
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell....

in a recent conversation a friend told me her daughter
owns eighty seven pairs of shoes. she has never owned
more than six pair at one time in her life and grew up
with only two paid until her late teens. what is the process
that allows a twenty year old daughter to possess that
much while a generation earlier her mother owned
so much less?

i have another friend who owns a house worth over
two million dollars. she, her sister and parents grew up
in a home worth a tiny fraction of that amount.
her sister, a teacher, died with one million dollars
in the bank. what is the process that permits that great
a leap in personal wealth in a single generation?

i do not know and more importantly i honestly dont know
which political party will ensure its continuance. do you?

what if one week before the election, when asked
a question about the candidates, president bush said
"the choice in this election is clear. the good material life
we live here, where any man and any woman can exceed
their parents standard of life, has been made possible
by war. yes it has. there has not been a single day
in the life of any living american that we have not been
at war some where and with some one. it's so sad!
but it's true and it's just the pirate's booty that's all!

"so the choice is clear and if you want to continue this
good life then vote for my party. if you want change,
now there's a mighty popular word these days, yes it
most certainly is. and if you want change and all that
goes with change, vote for the other side"

yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!