Ode to imaginary wealth
November 19, 2015 § 25 Comments
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I’m no poet
But I’ll inflict this on you.
They confuse us about usury
by treating a personal guarantee
as if it were their property
and charging us a rental fee
now this is modern slavery
which rests on unreality
that banks turn into currency
for paying your transaction fee
Those Vogons have got nothing on me. I blame this on Bonald.
Zippy Catholic 
As soon as the notification for this post showed up in my inbox I knew what to expect.
Now all we need is a tune to sing this to, and a posse of attractive young women to film themselves doing so.
It’s America! Make Money Fast!
Buy Now, pay later
Credit Card? Bring it
Suck it, Dave Ramsey
Debt Driven Wealth,
It’s the New Dimension of Unreality
It’s America! Make Money Fast!
Verse 2:
It’s America! Make Money Fast!
Chapter 11 at the door
Saved by Clean Slate
Suck it, Zippy Catholic
You can spend into prosperity
Who is this guy named Sisyphus?
It’s America! Make Money Fast!
Bridge:
We don’t love money
Just the things it buys
Jews deliver the goods
A Master Race for our Golden Age!
Final verse:
It’s America! Make Money Fast!
New Car, Bling It
Cash out the Equity
I love Janet Yellen
GDP to infinity and beyond
What is this thing called inflation?
It’s America! Make Money Fast!
In light of this, all of your anti-torture writings are so much hypocrisy.
CJ:
No terrorist can withstand the ministrations of my poetry for long.
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No terrorist can withstand the ministrations of my poetry for long.
I bet you had a track on the mix tape they blasted at Noriega when they were trying to force him to abdicate.
it flows pretty well if you set it to “modern Major General”
I’m thinking of that obnoxious Eminem song that they use in the Despicable Me movie. It should be a rap, if it is supposed to appeal to modern culture. We’d have to change up the lines a bit, maybe make multiple ‘verses’ or passes through the rap with just the last line changing. Four lines at a time would fit the rhythm.
That would show them that we mean business.
I’m still trying to figure out how to include links to my posts in an .mp3 file.
The “refrain” from this little horror:
No comment on my Magnum Opus? You were my inspiration, Zippy!
Peter Blood:
Between the two of us we’ll find some cultural relevance. That’s what natural alphas do.
Zippy has linked favorably to an Eminem song; albeit damned with feint (stet) praise.
Does our strange symmetry of agreement know no bounds?
“Favorably” perhaps missed the irony of the whole exercise, and its genesis in the linked post.
Ha! Perhaps.
But you still wrote a poem and then suggested it be set to tune in the musical stylings of one Marshall Mathers.
The thing is: You knew the ”ee” “ee” “ee” etc. cadence in the chorus.
Cane:
I also know what a ‘Minion’ is.
If we want to get all serious, there is always this.
From the article, this:
Reminded me of this:
The second worst poetry in the galaxy.
I’m no poet
But I’ll inflict this on you.
I will concede that it is in fact poetry. But that is all.
Cane:
As far as that goes, I probably see “Christian Rap” and “Christian Game” as approximately as authentic as each other.
Zippy, in your opinion is bookkeeping (recording of financial transactions and is part of the process of accounting in business) a good subject to study as part of a job training course?
This job training course I’m about to embark on is not focused on banking and finance, but it’s about being a (general) personal assistant and helping out managers at any business (the business can be about medicine, law, engineering, construction or something else).
Transactions include purchases, sales, receipts, and payments by an individual person or an organization/corporation. Should I know about managing them, or not? Thanks for your help. Awaiting your response.
Alcest:
I don’t really give advice or try to help people make specific prudential moral or career decisions. Here I mostly talk about principles, or genericized concrete situations as a basis for discussion of principles; although the theme is really ‘whatever Zippy feels like blogging about’ and doesn’t follow any implicit or explicit mission statement.
But I can’t imagine that bookkeeping is any more morally problematic than all sorts of other things: driving a taxi, working at a hotel, etc. And it can certainly be an enriching and interesting thing to learn for someone who has the right personality and aptitudes for that sort of work.