A man swindling investors - many
close friends - of near eighty million dollars
gave one mil of his haul to charity.
Guilt, perhaps, or maybe genuine heart.
Decency is conceivable from the
most reproachable souls, horror the least.
My cynic clamors, it was merely guilt!
that friend of society that stays hands,
fills the coffers of churches and their ilk.
Does causation matter to a child
wearing his first pair of sneakers, waking
inoculated to malaria?