Dad's Big Wheel

You know, those who write of how being grateful can easily just turn everything right side up haven't met my deceptive self-seeking, which clearly thought that being grateful was one more way to get my way and that is, from the back to the middle and around again, it's gonna be here till we end, a hundred percent pure ego, pure uncut, unholy ego; so gratitude it seems also doesn't get me My way, damn the insidious reach of prosperity gospel droppings, instead, gratitude smooths the stone I am and, to the great comfort of those around me, the foundation, the Rock, that is first and last, that is bottom, can remain, and does so best, when  that stone is softened to something again resembling clay.

-pdk