Economics 101

[PrinceMyshkin]

If it’s on TV
and it’s FREE!
You can’t afford it.

If it’s Guaranteed
or your money back!
Better to put your money in the bank
at 0.nothing percent interest
or at the back
of your sock drawer.

Let the bank rob you blind!
(Come to think of it,
It was always your eyes
they were after.)
*

An iron economy governs us all.
You, who measure each cent,
will have nothing in the end.
While you, who are outwardly profligate


--who spend and spend: money and time
and love--and count nothing lost,
will have hearts that are in balance,
and joy without cost.

[Sweets America]

I don't care for the first part of your poem, but the second one is good!

[goldenrod]

As the saying goes..."The best things in life are free." We both seem to have our doubts.


goldenrod.

[PrinceMyshkin]

I had a dream
and I had a dollar.
The problem was to spend the one
without losing the other.

[illuminatix]

You have captured much wisdom within these lines dear Poet!
I adore your closing, it is powerful and brilliant

[firefangled]

I had a dream
and I had a dollar.
The problem was to spend the one
without losing the other.

Ah! and what a trick this turns out to be.

Very wise.

[DanielBenoit]

I had a dream
and I had a dollar.
The problem was to spend the one
without losing the other.

Very clever!

Again, I love your compactness, and it has aspired me to practice this sort of tameness.