Pleonexia by Lindell Vecchio

We’re born to die
From profit-lies

Profit-lies–
Sell us as chattel
Send us to battle
Factory our farms
Disregard harm
Trick our treats
Poison our drinks
Addict us to drugs
Give access to thugs
Induce the theft
Of whatever’s left
Destroy the cause
For written laws
Feed the seed
Of wanton Greed

© June 2011; January 2012

Pleonexia – accursed love of having in pursuit of its own interests with complete disregard for the rights of others or even for the considerations of common humanity; aggressive vice that operates in three spheres of life:

1) Material, grasping at money and goods, regardless of honor and honesty;

2) Ethical , ambition that tramples on others to gain something which is not fairly meant for it;

3) Moral, an unbridled lust which takes its pleasure where it has no right to         take.

Greed – intense and selfish desire for wealth, power, or food; avarice, cupidity, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity; materialism, mercenary, voracity, insatiability, intemperance, self-indulgence, lust, avidity

Wanton – deliberate, willful, malicious, spiteful, wicked, cruel, gratuitous, unprovoked, motiveless, arbitrary, groundless, unjustifiable, needless, unnecessary, uncalled for, senseless, pointless, purposeless, meaningless, empty, random, capricious, amoral, immodest, indecent, shameless, unchaste, fast, loose, impure, abandoned, lustful, lecherous, lascivious, libidinous, licentious, dissolute, debauched, degenerate, corrupt, disreputable

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