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# Downhill
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/downhill/
- Published: 2022-07-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: a waterfall that flows downhill does not engender a raised eyebrow and yet, the flow of dollar bills continues to surprise the highbrow like a black hole, the budget does attract all matter to an orbit it's all about...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

a waterfall that flows downhill  
does not engender a raised eyebrow  
and yet, the flow of dollar bills  
continues to surprise the highbrow  
like a black hole, the budget does  
attract all matter to an orbit  
it's all about "I Have", "He Has"  
nor is it time to write an obit  
for justice: justice ever bends  
to what I'd call the laws of nature  
and execution -- yes -- depends  
not on some quirk of legislature  
but on where the black hole resides.

So put away their bona fides  
no advocate or legal scholar  
will supersede the mighty dollar.  
Once you have learned this lesson well,  
no, life does not, of sudden, swell  
into utopian perfection.  
Put it aside. Get a canoe  
and ride the rapids to the finish.  
Dissatisfaction will diminish.  
You'll get your turn into the queue.

And that, at least, is my reflection.