All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?