since funding is first
- Author(s):
- David R. Wolf
- Issue:
- On Rules (November 2020)
- Department:
- Healing the World
(after E. E. Cummings)
since funding is first
who gives any attention
to the substance of things
is never going to pay you;
wholly to be a tool
while grants are in the world
the boss approves;
donations are a better fate
than virtue
child i swear by our funders. Don’t cry
– the great zeal in our hearts is less than
your monthly timesheet which says
we’re renewed next year; then
laugh, leaning back in my chair
our funds are provided for
and clients i guess are not priorities
David R. Wolf is an attorney, activist, and four-plus-year veteran of the nonprofit industrial complex. He serves as recording clerk of Pima Monthly Meeting in Tucson, AZ (IMYM).