*Way Too Late Snap, Gratefully Dedicated to Mairead Byrne
** *I HAVE BEEN SO MUCH HAPPIER & MORE AT EASE SINCE
I DISCOVERED THE ANSWER TO **
** MOST QUESTIONS IS MONEY**
I've been trying for years to reprogram myself
so money wasn't important.
When I had what I would call A Lot
I was miserable, sodden, cursing God
and my self-made Fate.
But when it was taken away
by the power of the law
and the economic pendulum,
I was even more miserable,
for now I was conscious enough to know
how miserable I was.
Which marks me as venal.
Venality, then.
It doesn't pay for shit,
but money does.
Call it a bad case of Gimme.
Reverend Ike may have
been onto something.
He was surely distasteful, but
tell that to someone who is broke.
KTW/10-21-05
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