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Free Drinking Toasts About Debt
Challenge: Free Drinking Toasts
Debt Dregs
You're feeling quite
bitter today?
Too much work done for
too little pay
Pecking keyboards, your
girth
Is increasing. It's worth
All you've got if
there's some other way.
Mice and Cheese
Your boss extends hope,
it's a tease
To keep you in line, and
with ease.
Yet you must keep your
house
And you are the mouse
In the trap, so just who
moved your cheese?
Free drinking toasts here. Roasts elsewhere.
Such magnanimity encourages the lass to serve up more of those regrettable pub munchies that leave health department workers
aghast as patrons double-dip with abandon. These are served up with other free
brews, for pockets are now fairly bereft of coin…
Challenge: Free Download of Poems
Small Voices
In this business of earning a living
The worker continues in
giving
While months become years
Increasingly hears
A small voice expressing
misgiving.
Adjustable Rate Mortgage
with Balloon?
In your status as a mortgagee
You continue to be
employee
In a job that you hate
Knowing your mortgage
rate
Consumes you,
unfortunately.
Edward, put off by the grim humor of his pub mates, and one who has
read the classics there at Oxbridge, mutters quietly,
“Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.” Then he
collects his watch with its fob, slips it into his vest pocket, and
totters home, while others with more modest means drain the last bitter
dregs…
Challenge: Abandon Hope
The Gerbil
Like a child's tiny pet,
you run round
That treadmill, just
covering ground
That goes nowhere yet,
Just serving your debt
A greedy, voracious
hellhound.
Time Clock
Punch that time clock,
if you please.
A pile of debt like a
disease
Or a monster that feeds
On you for the needs
Of your family, so who
moved your cheese?
Should ever you find yourself similarly depressed about the nine-to-five, you might consider SBI.
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