Prices Of Vices Poem by John Sensele

Prices of vices once or twice committed slice
Sizable swathes of reputation and invite diminution
Incurred when fury and jury flash out lice
From dice that ice fame and span blames in a nation.

Prices of vices twice or thrice sampled in ample
Quantity without humility shred red blushes
Hoist clashes, toast flashes to amble without preamble
On the seamy side of life no matter what tune a fife chooses and hushes.

Prices of vices mice manufacture
Gnawing cassava tubers, carrots and potato crops
From fields whose yields mice fracture
When their canines and incisors cut fertilizer ropes.

Prices of vices plain villains in plains learn
When in the company of hardcore criminals
In jail where with no bail possibility they spurn
A chance for parole to play a role in rehabilitation terminals.

Prices of vices consecrated and perpetrated by street walkers
Who grab bags of bread from chided children and wounded wives
Who for days on end feed on slices of air because hookers
Divert packs of bucks from drowsy souses whose wives charm chives.