Humanity was my business!

"Humanity was my business!" the Ghost of Jacob Marley thunders, with a good long shake of his chain and lock boxes, in reply to his former partner Ebeneezer Scrooge's remark, "You always were a good businessman, Jacob."

"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing his hands again.

"Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!'

With that sobering statement to Scrooge, Marley's Ghost sends a chill up the spine of his old partner, as well as every reader of the story ever since.

What is YOUR business?

oh squiggly line

oh squiggly line
in my eye fluid
i see you
there lurking
on the periphery
of my vision

but when i try
and look at you
you scurry away

are you shy
squiggly line?

why only when
i ignore you,
do you return
to the center
of my eye?

oh squiggly line
its alright
you are forgiven

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