To Robert Creeley(1926-2005)
You get the Puritan ethos wrong.
Hard-work had been taken granted
by everyone except the aristocracy
and the religious.
It was one of the certainties of life.
Then you got the emergent bourgeois,
who didn't have to work hard,
if they wished so.
But that meant the family fortunes
would diminish, not grow.
So you needed an ethos
to keep the fortunes growing.
The Puritan ethos. And so, like
someone indulgently pissing
on the street from a second or
third story window,
it rained on those below
who had to work hard to survive,
without any ethos driving them,
and soaked and stained them.
18.07.2022
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