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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MONEY GOES, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography First Line: I spent a pfennig for a rose, a groschen for Last Line: "it's blowing coin for useless traps that breaks an old fat poet." Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Economics; Money | |||
I SPENT a pfennig for a rose, a groschen for some taffy, and said, "The way the money goes would drive a fellow daffy! The cost of living keeps us hot, it's threatening to bust us, and some one surely should be shot, if there's such stuff as justice." I paid a pistole for a pup, a doubloon for a daisy, and then I reared three cubits up, and said the times are crazy. "No matter what a fellow makes," I said, my bosom bleeding, "the money goes for cats and cakes, and other things he's needing. He cannot save a single yen, however hard he's trying, he's stony broke and broke again, whenever he goes buying." I paid a guilder for a goose, a kroner for a cradle, a noble for a hangman's noose, a livre for a ladle. And I was just about to say that it is past man's powers, to put a little sum away, against the day of showers. And then my nephew said, "Dear Unk, the riot act I'm reading; if you would cut out buying junk that no sane man is needing, you'd land in Easy street, perhaps, to stay there, ere you know it; it's blowing coin for useless traps that breaks an old fat poet." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest... |
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