Rule #47: Hard and Fast

“What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” – Adam Smith (1723-1790).

I remember the cursed 
Man cursing 
Hard and fast 
Approaching us 
Flat-footed on the flagstones 
Sweeping by in a 
Booze cloud 
Colonic cologne 
Eyes yellowed and roiling 
Spewing forth 
Spittle and Sacrilege 
Unshaven, unkempt and 
Fomenting 
Don’t mind him 
Grandma said 
Dropping one of her 
Toddler-clasped hands to  
Adjust her brooch 
By its Sapphire 
Some people just 
Talk that way