While the cans were filling with milk,
The needy took and said
That you are good.
Then suddenly you stopped giving milk.
You were supposed to bring
Big money.
Not fully ready, it turned out.
Shame on the cow!

Yesterday’s best become the worst —
To market with them, or to meat!
They scheme to replace them with others —
The appetites of the greedy go off the scale at times.

No claims against the indifferent,
Useless to wait for handouts from them,
Even murderers are forgiven, in a sense —
Whoever used to give
And stopped
Is the one to blame.

(The wife said: “This is life.”)