Irked, Leverage

people pay for tension
and then release
if they only knew
how much they were
willing to spend
on the things they
say “I dislike”
or even hate
time and money and 
sparks flying
toward the things 
that repel
magnetic forces
factories making
loans to the damned
foreclosures building
negotiating fully
bringing the news
as revenge
for being old
one more year
failures hold on
against the odds of
succeeding the forebears