Sunday, May 6, 2012

Clayton

What's he make?
You like the smell
... of money?
... of money.

Money, got some?
rich diet,
... isn't it?
... isn't it.

A real high if
you can fly it,
... a testimony
of extra money.
Help yourself
to confidence
put it all down
lost some every time
Ahh, there's plenty
to go around.
Killer looks, with,
rich kids' haul
fishes on the hooks,
... trips to the mall.

Can you boil it out?
from a distant remote sky
did I lose this bout?
... ha, I didn't even try.

Money money money money money
... it's a funny word
bottom feeders cannot imagine you,
... you're such a strange bird.
Help yourself
to confidence
put it all down
lost some every time
Ahh, there's plenty
to go around.
Oh, what's that?
all your money all spent?
Could I possibly be
... any more ambivalent?

Listen to the voice
on the telephone line
did you have a choice
before you broke that spine?

Get you every time
... all malcontent now
Gone rich kid blind ...
You've got the syndrome, and how,
Time to sell your scrawny behind!
Help yourself
to confidence
put it all down
lost some every time
Ahh, there's plenty
to go around.


Patrick Darnell (1988)

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