Imagine we all turned to caring for
Widows orphans disabled aged poor
Would they outnumber us or
Would we share in rotation with
Others one two three maybe more
Would there be enough money in
The system to cover the pills beds
Surgeries prostheses the like who’d
Do our jobs while we were away
Would doctors nurses counselors
Get credit for already being involved
Could lawyers tell justices they can’t
Be in court that’s the day they’ll be
Caring for their old lady no really
Their old lady or would caretakers
Trade their assignments to cover
Such gaps would you switch from
Some needy beggar and elect only
To read to children would alcoholics
Not be given drunkards or would
That be a preference of course
Pedophiles would not be allowed
Near children but if homosexuals
Were to work with fundamentalists
Could that change opinions or
Aggravate all concerned Israelis
Helping Palestinians atheists
Teaching stricken Mormons to talk
Disabled playing basketball with
Physically fit mental defectives
Would depressed folks benefit
Counseling suicidals or would
They do better with the cheery
Young doomed with inoperable
Cancers and to give the whole
Process a timely touch should
Donald Trump help refugees
Find needed housing Hillary
Devote herself to caring for babes
Of young single mothers
Out looking for good jobs
There’s so much to consider
Perhaps the present system of
Luck and happenstance is best
Like some knowing invisible
Hand marketwise guides some
To one others to others for the
Maximum possible good any
Of these would make great
Stories in the hands of a novelist
Hypochondriac becomes hero
Serving in the Ebola camps
Dying child gives depressed man
A reason to live still the system
Fails to spread enough good to
The deserving and leaves many
Untouched with time on their
Hands to drive sporty cars and
Frolic with numerous nubile
Naive tarts-in-waiting makes one
Challenge the wisdom of fortune
The Good Samaritan chancing on
One beaten soul great as an example
For singular devotion but barely
Meets the need in practice
Doncha think
c. J.S.Manista, 2015
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