Hey thanks Ken. This is brilliant. I somehow missed it earlier so thank you Andrew too. Your poem reminds me of Po-Chu-i in tone, Ken. I never had any money and everything filled me with the most awful anxiety. Now that I actually have been known to buy an occasional cup of coffee (and a house), things are better and I have come to the realization that all the things I thought were disasters (e.g., missing the bus: hello, there is such a thing as a taxi) actually can be addressed by money thereby saving enormous expenditure in terms of anxiety. If I don't have the money, I realize that's the problem: it's not something to crumble under. Money is a sort of language. As I learn this language I also learn the language of debt: which I never spoke when I had no money. I agree with you too Andrew regarding blessed health, love, and brio! And of course her royal highness poetry!
Mairead
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Ken -
'I've been rich and I've been poor - and rich is better.' I think Groucho
said this.
I once measured my wealth in dollars - Now I measure it in health and
happiness. I don't mean to be greeting-card-corny, but that's the truth of
the matter. And a good poem off my pen is a sometime thing.
Andrew the Philosopher (this morning only!)
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From: "Ken Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 3:23 AM
Subject: with gratitute to our ms byrne, a late snap
> *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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