Blues

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by qxr1011, Apr 1, 2015.

  1. qxr1011

    qxr1011

    Eighteen years I've spent in Manhattan.
    The landlord was good, but he turned bad.
    A scumbag, actually. Man, I hate him.
    Money is green, but it flows like blood.

    I guess I've got to move across the river.
    New Jersey beckons with its sulfur glow.
    Say, numbered years are a lesser evil.
    Money is green, but it doesn't grow.

    I'll take away my furniture, my old sofa.
    But what should I do with my windows' view?
    I feel like I've been married to it, or something.
    Money is green, but it makes you blue.

    A body on the whole knows where it's going.
    I guess it's one's soul that makes one pray,
    even though above it's just a Boeing.
    Money is green, and I am gray.

    Joseph Brodsky