Greed

What a joke 
What a laugh 
People stressing 
The overdraft 

Oh my 
Oh me 
How much will it be? 

Can I afford to pay? 
Another unfair bill today? 

Such is the way of the corporate ladder 
To send paper with numbers 
In order to get fatter 

I laugh at your effort
To rob me long distance 
Instead I smirk 
And return resistance 

It seems odd to me 
That people fret 
Like they’ll ever collect 
Is what I bet 

I wait for it all to collapse 
For corporate America 
To fall into relapse 

Then look at the greed 
And what they have brought 
How much blood from a stone? 
Is my thought 

I love to laugh at these greedy misguided fools
Sending paper numbers 
To obedient tools 

When they send you pictures of numbers 
Send them pictures of money 

And laugh, laugh, laugh………..

Eric (and sometimes not)

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009



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Date: 12/5/2009 9:50:00 PM
Wow Linda thats quite the compliment. I to am an economic refugee and have been for some time. I'm not sure if people want to see my hideousness on TV especially in HD, but I'm willing to get on there and tell it like it is. Then again I think most people find solace in ignorance. There is a certain safety in being blind from the truth. I thank you very much for your support it means the world to me.
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Date: 12/5/2009 9:29:00 PM
And I nominate Eric Nolan to have his own TV show to express to America the wrongs being done to all of us... and how the "fat cats" are living in luxury when I cannot find a decent job anymore... a collapse might just be what we need.. an implosion.. then start all over again with some good people to build the foundation... thankxxx Eric for this poignant write of yours... "Sweetheart"
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Date: 12/1/2009 5:55:00 PM
Not sure Vince, if and when things do fall I tend to think the corporate bastards will be among the first to get paid back by the masses they have fleeced for years.
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Date: 12/1/2009 5:28:00 PM
Gotta enjoy every freakin moment. The fall is near but the sad part is the corporate bastards will take care of their own and we'll get the bill for it. Vince
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Date: 11/29/2009 6:00:00 PM
Thank you Doris, I appreciate it.
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Date: 11/29/2009 5:29:00 PM
funny, enjoyed
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Date: 11/25/2009 12:11:00 PM
Thank you Simone appreciate your input.
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Date: 11/25/2009 12:10:00 PM
You sound like you want me to leave Deborah is that what your saying ?
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Date: 11/25/2009 12:03:00 PM
Well said, well written! love Simone
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Date: 11/24/2009 5:46:00 AM
So who are you when you're not Eric? Yes again what you say is true ..yet why say it without proposing what to do? What's the meaning, the point it all seems so unfair, but you have the controll to stop just look else where. Light & Love
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Date: 10/31/2009 2:51:00 PM
LOL wonderful write here, Eric. Upon occasion, the big G grabs hold of me ... especially at Bingo but I never win big enough to get too carried away ... smile ...
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Date: 9/29/2009 10:59:00 AM
I enjoyed reading your wonderful poem today. Sometimes it takes a little humor in these matters to get through the day.Please continue writing and sharing with us Eric. Love, Carol
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Date: 9/29/2009 1:33:00 AM
Very good lol. i might just try that.... and send pictures of money lol. i like it. x
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