Greed



What a joke
What a laugh
People stressing
The overdraft

Oh my
Oh me
How much will it be?

Can I afford to pay?
Another unfair bill today?

Such is the way of the corporate ladder
To send paper with numbers
In order to get fatter

I laugh at your effort
To rob me long distance
Instead I smirk
And return resistance

It seems odd to me
That people fret
Like they’ll ever collect
Is what I bet

I wait for it all to collapse
For corporate America
To fall into relapse

Then look at the greed
And what they have brought
How much blood from a stone?
Is my thought

I love to laugh at these greedy misguided fools
Sending paper numbers
To obedient tools

When they send you pictures of numbers
Send them pictures of money

And laugh, laugh, laugh………..

Eric (and sometimes not)
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Submitted by EASN on February 11, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XAXX XBB CC DED XFXF BGXG HXH XIXI JEJ EB A X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 781
Words 162
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1

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