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A dime for a dozen
when the weather is frozen,
on thirteen snowflakes to fall.
Yes, I count ’em all!
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It’s supply and demand,
if you give a damn.
It’s Eekonomics –
so Buy, Put or Call.
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I’ll bet on your failure,
I’ll hedge on success;
I’ll wager the sailor
kills an albatross.
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If it’s ripe for the picking,
then your money I’m snicking;
and I’ll bet on your
eating your loss.
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I’ve got no emotion.
It’s all my devotion
to making the beast that I am.
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It’s the Lust to be rich
only Lucre can Scratch –
an insatiable, horrible itch.
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And if the Lucre were here,
we’d both share a beer;
for I am the Devil’s best friend.
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If there’s thirteen snowflakes
that fall and that’s all –
then I Win!
Ha Ha Ha Ha.
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© Marvin Loyd Welborn 2011
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 
Quirky thinking, beautifully expressed. Piquant. Thanks for your visit to my blog.
Very nice…Greatly enjoyed reading this!
Take care!
ha…fun bit of verse…the devils friend eh, i feel a song in this…think you should strum a few bars and let it rip…
haha you count them all and 13 comes out. Wish I had such a snow fall, I lost count at 1000 or so..haha, fun verse.
EEkonomics, indeed. This is one of those where you’re laughing to keep from crying. But every word rings true. Esp liked the Coleridge reference.
Hilarious! I bet the market may be a little dicey currently. Hopefully there is time to get out with the impending crash that might come a year from now. Things not looking well for the US and Europe now and worst by then!
Hank
haha – fun write marvin…love the political tunes in this and…glad you’re counting the snowflakes..smiles
I’m hearing an evil laugh at the end for some reason. Love the tone and the fun of it.
13 the lucky number some are afraid of but like Pat said to me 13 is also 31 turned around. 31 is coming fast and so is Halloween enjoy great write
http://gatelesspassage.com/2011/10/11/the-day-of-the-dead/#comment-1682
awesome humor,
thanks for the entertainment,
🙂
Eekonomics indeed (that albatross has long fascinated me). Hasn’t anyone ever heard of steady state economics as an alternative to that ‘insatiable, horrible itch’. It uses terrifying words like limits and borrows important concepts from ecology like carrying capacity. While it constrains physical quantities it put no restrictions on the growth of important intangible assets like knowledge. Sounds like a win-win that would send that devil cursing along the Street. I’ll take my soap box with me back to my blog :). Great work.