Must be a Woe
Must be a Woe —
A loss or so —
To bend the eye
Best Beauty's way —
But — once aslant
It notes Delight
As difficult
As Stalactite
A Common Bliss
Were had for less —
The price — is
Even as the Grace —
Our lord — thought no
Extravagance
To pay — a Cross —
A loss or so —
To bend the eye
Best Beauty's way —
But — once aslant
It notes Delight
As difficult
As Stalactite
A Common Bliss
Were had for less —
The price — is
Even as the Grace —
Our lord — thought no
Extravagance
To pay — a Cross —
Emily Dickinson
Extravagance can be defined in various ways. It is a condition of excessiveness, lavishness. It is generally considered negative, the opposite of prudence:
- A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate
- Excessive or imprudent expenditure
- Something costly and unnecessary
Extravagance - a word for this generation. Distracted by the famously extravagant, we bestow worth to egocentric lives by our attention. Our children know all their names.
Moral apathy: the extravagance of self-indulgence. People roaming about, spending rudeness, demanding attention. Road bullies, verbal polluters, noisy narcissists. No material abundance required.
'But Mary...her extravagance was spent on Someone else. Would you "waste" a year's income worth of anything on anyone?
© Janet McDonald
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