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# Good Government
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/good-government/
- Published: 2022-06-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: All the worst impulses of Man: his laziness, his greed, his envy, want, the worst he can and will do to succeed.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

All the worst impulses of Man:  
his laziness, his greed,  
his envy, want, the worst he can  
and will do to succeed.

All those are given, there's no use  
pretending otherwise.  
Not a throw up your hands excuse:  
a word, though, to the wise

Design a government that will  
align, not with a wish  
but with reality. The swill,  
always a tasty dish.

Incentivize to common sense  
and pay for it, hard cash.  
The dollar -- it's made up of cents,  
and always...clean the trash.