Every Unspent Penny



All your unspent money will fall in other's hands
who think it is funny
to blow on one-night-stands.

It's time to fly first-class or successors will.
Get out of your morass
and long held dreams fulfill.

Any unspent asset will have new ownership
enjoyed in a facet
for wastrels to outstrip.

Saved by being frugal you have a nice nest egg.
At taps of the bugle
it poufs like powder-keg.

Every unspent penny will someday lay in waste
or fall prey to many
and be consumed in haste.

An unearned bonanza receives no true respect.
An extravaganza
displays benign neglect.
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Submitted on January 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABA CXC DXD EXE FBF GXG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 547
Words 100
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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