238th Chorus

Who was it wrote “Money is the root of all evil?”
Was it Oscar Wilde in one of his witties?
Was it Celine – nah.
Was it Alexander Pope, Benjamin Franklin
        or William Shakespeare –
Was it Pope in one of his many
        clever lines?
Benjamin in his Almanac of Peers
        has Richard the Chicken Liver
        Express a private pear.

Or is Shakespeare blowing wild
Confucius-Polonius witticismical
Paternity-type advice –
“Money is the root of all evil”
For I will
Write
In my will
“I regret that I was not able
To love money more.”
For which reason I go into retreat
And monastery – all monastic in a cell
With devotions and hellpellmell
And Yumas Arctic Gizoto Almanac
Priotho Consumas Konas
   In the Corner, & Mother Damema


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