248 - I don't think much of the proposition

I don’t think much of the proposition
That there’s a purpose to all of this life,
And that it’s all about reproduction:
There’s plenty of worth in a barren wife.
In any case, the population’s rife:
We’re multiplying too fast as it is,
And so, in order to ward off more strife,
Let’s value the productive and childless
Who often work for others’ happiness,
And, when they die, the accumulation
Of their estate’s cut, like cake with a knife,
And distributed to the charities
And not the usual selfish transmission
To one’s own kids only. And so we strive.
Thur 10 May 2007