52.

Freezing to death is not an act of love

Or any effect love might have: greed, like lust,

Knows no bounds. Budgets, like lovers, can be

Illicit and rationalize what you never thought

Could be. Beggars have desires, and gypsies

Have nostrils to smell, and scapegoats

Sing in choirs that angels might flock to

If they had not been placed and misplaced.

In some corner of that garden, perhaps

By the wall, I wish love would have no

Politics, would not need the law to sort

It out when the fruit went bad in the windfall.

Beds have revenues and rents but might hold

Roses, or lilies that would not fester.