Are your customers
your students,
your patients and clients,
your constituents,
cash cows
and potentially bullish runaway viral markets?
Or cherished neighbors
and healthy allies?
Asked the newly retired Queen of Soul.

Are your kids,
Are your grandparents,
Are your future and past generations
of exponentially growing DNA diversity
competing chauvinistic wealth investors?
Or co-investors in cooperative health-soul development?

Is there really nothing between such hell
and heaven?
I asked in return.

Only self-perpetuating purgatory
for those who insist on responding to soulful questions
with devil in the details questions.
that don’t correctly begin
with mutually spelled out
respect INTEGRITY.