Lingering| POETRY

they say we spring
from two bodies
but why is it a sip
of taboo when two
fruits coming from
the same mother
find pleasures on each other's body
but, never, when mothers are different?

they say hard work
ripens one's breakthrough
and except a man piggybacks it
his breast-pocket will remain scorched
but why do we tongue grace
when abundance pitches its tent
over an indolent man?

they clergyman brags
about a home in the sky
he says everything Earth palms
is vanity
but why does he run to
the hospital when malady thunders?