
A penny for each spiteful word
was dues I pledged and owed.
In sin tax jar, those coins were sowed,
when word aggression had occurred
great copper piles, by guilt interred.
Passed years increased that penance load
until each pot had overflowed,
but shame had no atonement spurred.
Those antique coins, a mitey blend
of punishment and prize.
Most rich men do, wrong message send
but few will seldom criticize.
The man who greedy trades one friend
ends up lonesome when he dies.