Day Thirty-two

Today's words:

Ego

Mistake

Genius

Profit

Tart

Hardware

You'd have to have a pretty insecure ego

To claim you'd never made a mistake.

Even a genius

Lost a lot before making a profit

With ideas as useless as an apple tart

In a hardware

Store. What kind of hardware

Is used to fix an ego?

Can the tart

Sting of a mistake

Turn to profit

In the education of a genius?

It really doesn't take a genius

To know that hardware

Is less likely to turn a profit

These days. Perhaps the fault with my ego

Was admitting my mistake

Too soon, or thinking of myself more as a tart

And less an inventor. But I feared the tart

Scorn of our resident self-proclaimed genius.

Stupid, I know, and yet another mistake.

I just wanted to sell hardware,

Not nourish another's ego,

And hopefully turn a small profit.

For whose is the profit

When tart

Criticism stings one's ego?

Why should I care if this "genius"

Thinks selling hardware

Was a mistake.

I'll tell you what's a mistake:

Caring for profit

Above all else, and not allowing the hardware

Business time to grow. Maybe people would like a bit of tart

As they shopped for tools. Why listen to this non-genius

Praise his own ego?

So maybe it wasn't a mistake, this idea with the tart

In the store. It's no profit to the genius

Who ignored the hardware store plan in favor of his own ego.