Poverty, Perception and the Law of Work

a clearly articulated perception, though coherent and concerted,
is not simple or sensible to poverty.
it is not merely a question of giving,
nor reabsorption of the idle that will cure.
what is the means to its remedy?
since perception measures no functional values
only an irreducible experiment will do.
a clumsy dialectic of making and selling now stand,
where perception once stood alone.
the toil, sweat, and blood of laboring souls
find favor in the affirmation of value
and a certain force of moral enchantment.
where once perception stood articulate,
now sits the absurd silence of poverty.
in this Garden of Eden perception knows only shame,
as it wallows in the thistles and weeds of the untamed.
what is the means of its replacement?
a new space invented by the toil of society.
a new world deriving ethical transcendence
from the clearly articulated Law of Work!