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Position:Home>Poetry> How much interest are you paying?Question: How much interest are you paying!? Pay Day In cash we trust On bended knees Worship high cards Eating the fees Closets of clutter Gathering costs In gluttonous fountains Rusty coins tossed Get what you’re after Forget those who need Souls sold for show Buy in to the greed Noses turned skyward Couldn’t care less Singular society Ignoring the rest For all that you bought After you it will stay When bones come to roost What price will we pay!? ?rad091608 Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Our greed has us all living in a waistland spread!. I was working on a similar theme to this myself recently, I'll have to pull my finger out!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Money, get away!. Get a good job with good pay and youre okay!. Money, its a gas!. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash!. New car, caviar, four star daydream, Think I'll buy me a football team!. Money, get back!. Im all right jack keep your hands off of my stack!. Money, its a hit!. Dont give me that do goody good bullsh!t!. I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set And I think I need a lear jet!. Money, it's a crime!. Share it fairly but dont take a slice of my pie!. Money, so they say Is the root of all evil today!. But if you ask for a raise its no surprise that they're Giving none away!. Huhuh! I was in the right! Yes, absolutely in the right! I certainly was in the right! You was definitely in the right!. that geezer was cruising for a Bruising! Yeah! Why does anyone do anything!? I dont know, I was really drunk at the time! I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2!. he was asking Why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and Screaming and telling him why he wasnt coming up on freely!. It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out!.Www@QuestionHome@Com that is great!. it really hits on the consumer mentality of our lives- new, more, better, digging ourselves in holes of debt that is hard to get out of!. society might be a little better off if they would think of what they could do or give to others once in awhile instead of always getting the next big thing for themselves!. you can't take it with you, but while your here you could help make someones' life better!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The title says it all - Pay Day will come, and it will be too late then to try to justify Western greed!. We take too large a slice of the cake, and close our eyes to the people picking up the crumbs from our table!. I am as guilty as the next man, but I am not comfortable with my guilt!. Well said!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Very good!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!. too many living beyond their means on plastic, So sad!. From every direction our youth especially gets the message, buy,buy, buy!. Brain washed to spend, spend, spend!. And usa with little industry, our strength sold out from under us, much too long ago!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Ha! One I can really sink my teeth into! Zero!. Zip!. Nada!. Nada damned dime!. One credit card, paid in advance (drives 'em nutty)!. Couple of months ago, received a check from them!.!.!.they apparently cannot (because of some law) keep a balance of over $200!.00 (Cr!. bal!.) in their system!. We recycle and reuse!. As the old saw during the Depression went!.!.!."Waste not, want not"!. Better be the current motto, the way things are going!. (Hmmm, I appear to be recycling punctuation!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com In youth - we consume - all the fads, trinkets and gadgets!. In old age - we look around us - so much STUFF to get rid of - to make our passing less "messy" to handle!. Maybe something will be prized by our descendants - maybe something will be of value!. ?Www@QuestionHome@Com No bones,,,,Just ashes,,, Ashes to ashes Dust to dust 90% of it will be in a suitcase 10% Taxable ,,,,Left to my wife & son,,,,,,,, Or just our son if wifey's not around The first few lines are oh so true,,,, We like & like this piece very much so,,,,,Www@QuestionHome@Com You know what they say!? You can't take it with you!? Well I am taking it with me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Are you picking on me!? We REALLY needed that roof, man! Seriously though, your words ring true!. We live a very simple life and share what we have with others!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "Country Clubs and Cemeteries are the biggest waists of prime real estate!." Al Chervik!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Greed-- one of man's greatest sins!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |