8.6 Causes

CAUSES

by Eric Chaet

For most politicians, politics is a cause
tho many are cynical opportunists, too
as for most poets, poetry is a cause
as for most scientists, science is a cause
& for most artists, art is a cause
as for almost everyone
managing to get up & make themselves presentable
& getting to whatever work will get them the money
to repeat the exercise until their strength fails
is a cause
& only occasionally someone insists
on breaking thru the crust
on work that undoes injustice
that reveals truth
that delivers merciful attention & supplies
on righteously opposing
the bullying of the weak
& the deluding of the ignorant
& tho many of those doing such insisting
either began with misunderstanding
& maybe a radical need to compensate
for some lack of balance
chemical maybe, certainly psychological
some are brave & wise—
in which case, they are threats
to everyone else’s cause
&, should they become threats
to tyrants or to the cons of prevailing con-artists
it is easy to rally the population against them
& they are easily handicapped
by the opposition
of even a bureaucrat here or there
or betrayal by a single
wife, husband, son, daughter
mother, father, teacher, friend, cop, thief
or by allocation of resources to their
more malleable competitors.

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