Luxury

seven million plankton derive something
from nothing
and start a community, trading nothing
for something

forty thousand Rolexes stop ticking
and their executives miss meetings
and miss the point, trading lunch breaks
for more Rolexes

like some unlucky fellow in lead shoes
gilded dreams sink slowly
later to be dredged up by a county policeman,
his third suicide this month

when the golden goose stops laying
she regains the power of flight
and reluctantly departs
never having met her golden offspring