What is your best poem about financial literacy?
To give you some inspiration, here is a haiku that I've created:
One thing that I've learned,
Is that if you want to eat...
Don't be a poet
Any variety of poem will do. Since poetry is highly subjective, I figure the more judges the better. Don't forget to vote for your favorites.
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M$9 Answers
Who majored in “History of Art”
When seeking some work
He felt just like a jerk
Earn your MBA first, if you’re smart
(original, as if you couldn't tell!)
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M$
Is for a boat or a home,
And a mortgage a financial tool;
It causes a groan,
A sigh and a moan,
Knowing I've been such a fool.
You see I didn't wait,
"Get an adjustable rate,"
They told me when the market was ahead.
Now my payments are late,
My wife is irrate,
And my credit is far beyond dead.
So, what do I do?
It was too good to be true.
Is there any hope for my kind?
Will I lose my job too?
My car and the view!?
Or will the government save my behind?
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M$
It's the poor that give
to the poor.
Those who can actually afford it walk by
the outstretched hand and box
with sneering dismissal.
"Get a job," they whisper under their peppermint breath,
knowing, as bosses,
they would never hire some bum
begging on a street corner.
"Have a nice day, anyway"
Spitting on a well-polished shoe
gets you six month's jail time
letting the poor starve
gets your picture in "Newsweek"
Go figure.
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M$
The bank took my Chevy.
The bank took my house back.
The bank wants to levy
More fees and more interest,
More charges and fines,
"More more!" Says the bank!
Hey is anything mine?
I guess not, I see now
I'm just in the tank.
I'm just here to nourish
The First Vampire Bank.
Once I charged up some french fries
And got overdraft fees,
Now me and the next guy
Can't do what we please.
I sleep in the subway
I eat from the trash
I hold out my hat
And beg people for cash.
I can't get a job cause my credit is shot.
I can't get good credit cause employed I am not.
I can't pay the bank and I can't pay the reaper.
My very own brother says he ain't my keeper.
Now I serve as a warning for losers and gangsters:
Beware of that menace
The First Vampire Banksters!.
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M$
For security, fun and hope,
It wasn't to be funny,
Or to end up as a dope.
But the country that I live in,
Has just pretenders all in power,
They don't know a bad from good decision,
All my hopes have now gone sour.
Poem is my own
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M$
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-is-the-value-of-money/
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M$
Who bought a sun-yellow corvette.
She never did pay,
It was taken away.
And now she's ten-thousand in debt.
(I envision this as the sister of the girl who had "fun, fun fun till her daddy took the T-Bird away." Not autobiographical, thankfully).
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M$Credit goodbye
No money
companies declining
unemployment lines
Way of life going down
companies failing
and interest rates too
This is the credit goodbye
There is no money to pay bills
and no work at the industry mills
People hungry and losing houses
Homes foreclosing and stocks dropping
This is the credit goodbye
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M$
What unsubsidized loans are
So I live in tents
(actually I do. had to keep it simple)
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M$
Thanks! Glad you all enjoyed my little limerick. Lots of fun.
I'm not sure if this is relevant to "financial literacy," but it is clever.