Pain Takes Priority over Banks and Foreign Wars

There’s the predator snoring
Around your torso. That one
Is hard to ignore. Others

Almost close enough to touch
Prowl around your house and home.
It’s foolish to ignore them,

But sometimes you do, given
They’re so exhausting to watch.
Then there are the predators

Mostly out of sight, too far
Away to concern you much.
Any of them could get you,

But it’s this one curled around
Your guts you’d hate to wake up.