Loitering

Who do you think you are
sitting or standing there
not spending any money?

Where’s your civic pride?
Don’t you know
the economy can’t survive?

People existing without
putting money back into
the money-pool
that raises all ships…

Don’t worry
only those without ships

drown.

Who do you think you are
sitting or standing
not spending money?

And don’t pretend you don’t
have any…

Everybody knows
loiterers are just tight-fisted
anti-social, unpatriotic, villains…

Just ask those with boats…

We all know what floats…

–LE – 4/26/26

This poem is the result of all the ‘NO LOITERING’ signs I’ve been seeing around town. Apparently, it’s illegal (or at least unseemly) to exist in public without spending money…