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“… A Perfect Explanation! …”

We are
So well trained

to be fluent in excuses.
Stealing rarely looks like a crime now.
We dress it up, polish it, give it hashtags and headlines—

call it sharing, fairness, freedom, team work.
Plato and Kant

had no idea of “fairness” of
expropriation from expropriators.

The poem that follows dives into this polished deception,
where envy hides behind virtue and self-interest wears the
costume of good
intentions.

It asks
what really stops us
from taking what we want?

Is it conscience—or just the lack of a good slogan?
Through sharp humor and vivid images, the poem exposes
how modern minds twist justice into permission,

how we moralize our hunger with clever words like
feminization, communization, and collaboration.

Here, the thief is not in the shadows but in plain sight—on a
podium, in a lab, in a meeting room—explaining why their
taking is “for the greater good.” This preface is an open door

into that world: where envy writes manifestos, and every
stolen spark is lit by the warm
glow of reason.

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