Reconsidering the Seven Deadly Sins?

Please — let's replace Pride

with Modesty, especially when it's false.



And thank goodness for Lust, without it
I wouldn't be here. Would you?

Envy, Greed — why not? If they lead us
to better ourselves, to Ambition.



And Gluttony, like a healthy belch,
is a guest's best response to being served a good meal.

I'll take Sloth over those busybodies
who can't sit still, watch a sunset
without yammering, or snapping a picture.
Now that makes me Wrathful.

--Peter Pereira from “What's Written on the Body.” © Copper Canyon Press, 2007. Reprinted with permission.