Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

A Sure Solution To Economic Woes

A Sure Solution to Economic Woes

By Elton Camp

One way will assure that basic needs are met
So that food, clothing, and shelter you will get
This happens when it’s a robber a man becomes
For from such a life there can be three outcomes

Perhaps the robbery can be successfully done
If so, he can get what he needs plus some fun
On the other hand, it’s to jail he might be going
The things he needs, the prisoner they’re owing

And then there is always possibility number three 
The one the thief certainly hopes won’t come to be
He might be shot and killed while doing the crime
That will solve his economic problems for all time

(The risk of writing satire is that there is some clueless reader who will take it as an 
actual suggestion as happened years ago to the writer of "A Modest Proposal."  
That is less likely at this site which attracts more savvy readers.)

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