Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INVESTMENT SECURITY, by F. W. H.


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INVESTMENT SECURITY, by                    
First Line: I'd like to have a ticker which would carry
Last Line: And save myself some unpropitious starts.
Subject(s): Investments; Love; Stocks; Bonds


I'd like to have a ticker which would carry
Quotations of my love stock every day,
For then I'd know just who and when to marry
Dan Cupid's bears and bulls I'd watch at play.

If Evelyn Preferred should slump on selling,
I'd send around a bunch of orchids quick;
If Agnes Common spurted, there's no telling,
I might go buy a ring and turn the trick.

If dividends were coming via Esther,
I'd put myself on record right away;
But if a statement showed a bankrupt Hester,
I'd sell the poor girl short without delay.

Ah, what a comfort I should find this ticker,
To guide me in life's stock exchange of hearts!
For with its help I'd know just how to pick her,
And save myself some unpropitious starts.





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