K E E P I N G U P W I T H T H E Dow Joneses

KEEPING UP WITH THE DOW JONESES These here are the indisputable facts I was born on the right side of the tracks WITH People who only smiled if their stocks or equity increased If not they wouldn’t have minded becoming deceased They had big cars, big bucks and big time class With a million dollar house mortgaged up the a*s Their children went to private schools in uniforms With charming and well decorated dorms I looked at their faces and wondered why I didn’t fit That’s when the fire in my belly was originally lit I had no desire to play with kids from private schools Nor did I ever agree to obey by their rules So one day I skipped over steel and these here are the facts The people I found lived in tents, not even shanties or shacks But they didn’t have to read Dow Jones in order to smile And couldn’t care less about having Gucci type style They smiled at things people ignore like little tykes at play And somehow or other they AWOKE contented day after day They had no stocks to watch fretfully fall or RESOUNDINGLY rise And you could see the easiness in their gleaming eyes That which I observed in them appealed to me a great deal The wrong side people taught me how satisfied I could feel They lived out of back-packs, antique cedar chests and sacks So if you come a’looking for me I’ll be on the wrong side of the tracks © 2011.…Phreepoetree ~free cee!~