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n 1 : a shoot or scion inserted into a slit of stock, from which it receives sap 2 : practices, esp. bribery, used to secure illicit gains in politics or business: CORRUPTION
Graft
Some words stand at odds--their meanings conflict;
graft's can be fruitful--abhorrent, as well.
Grafting the tree makes the peach sweater still;
the Life-giving sap--shared--sustains the whole tree.
Like ignorance of mind and hatred of eye--
greed of hand, saps Life--with bitter disdain.
Clutching our ignorance and folly, we swagger and prance;
with business as usual--we're in utter contempt.
We hoard all we can--"Let others get theirs!"
the sole free-flowing resource is our excrement.
When a critical mass, clearly perceives;
and responds as is fitting--unobstructed by greed--
then, with free-flowing resources--as nature evinces--
provision is present--the rest passed along.
---hhw2013
Graft - Relevant Quote
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst be false to any man.
---William Shakespeare, Hamlet, soliloquy by Polonius in Act 1, Scene 3
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