Getting Means Giving Up

Most of what you fantasize
Getting is really to keep
The best part of what you have,

And this includes the sweeping
Categories—the climate,
Peace, justice, democracy.

Even if you’re just greedy,
You don’t want all that money
So you can upend your life—

You just want to pump it up,
Inflate all you’ve got. And if
You’re lonely, longing, aching

For touch, you imagine it
In the context of what’s good
In whatever life you’ve got.

This is why celebrities,
Billionaires, and autocrats
Complain so much. They gave up.