Smugglers Watchman – watercolour by Ken Riddles
FINANCIAL SCHEMERS
I’m going to write a poem today
About those who would say:
“There’s no point in writing poems”
“It’s a distraction and no money in it anyway”
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Who are ‘they’ you might ask…?
Well – ‘they’ are obsessed with their task
Of money making…
Which sometimes includes illness-faking
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Cooking up lies –
With conspiracy ‘thought-baking’
You have come across such?
Whose heart is in the money
Mercenary in the extreme
They are not what they seem
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Pseudo-sick-days off work
Making extra dough
With their latest dodgy scheme
Well – as I say – you know the type I mean
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One track mind – money all the time
Cajoling you to part with your money
Slabbering out their deceit
Words of bitter honey
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Their anger may arise
If their scheming you can’t abide
Going off in huffs –
When their bullying you deride
How hard it is for a rich man schemer
Drop the ‘beautiful’ from the dreamer
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Uncertain riches can pierce you through
With many sorrows
‘Take no thought’ we are told
‘For tomorrow…’
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We know it’s not the money at fault
It’s the way it can totally steal your heart
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