THE
PSONGS
OF
NICHOLAS THE SENIOR
Nicholas teeters on the brink
Psong 18
fIs it not true that only Money gives you really good odds of having your wishes come true?
2And is it not true that Money does not fall from the sky like rain, or grow from the ground like wheat?
3How then can it be wrong to cease waiting for Money to fall from the sky, and to bet instead on rain falling from the sky, onto the wheat that grows from the ground?
4gFor if this is the only way that Money will come to me, then how else are my wishes to come true?
5Yea, for I have remembered that I have a hcousin in commodities, and it is possible that he has forgotten his rancor over the money I once lent him.
6iIndeed, he is a man who professes to believe in taking care of his family, and how many times have I not heard him boast about his willingness to do anything for his brothers and sisters and sons and daughters?
7Is not a cousin like unto a brother once removed? Would it not be reasonable to advance a brother some small stake in the commodities business? Most assuredly this is so, and will be a great boon to my fortunes, O Money!
8Certainly he must have forgiven everything by now! Did not his jdaughter recover with the medicine he bought using my money?
9And truly, thirty-three and a third percent cannot be too high a price to pay for the life of a daughter; How about it, O Money? Do you not agree that others might have charged him forty or even fifty percent?
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