Another gem from the pen of TMV’s favorite poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet:
The Credit Card Poem
I get my fun with Capital One
Discover buys my treasures
And when I’m down there’s Citicorp
Providing needed pleasures.
For special sin, Providian
And to you I’d be lying
If I denied with Sov’reign’s card
I do some basics buying.
They lendeth with an open hand
These banks with rates usurious
With means, I fear, one day I’ll face
A payback that’s delorious.
©2006 Michael Silverstein
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.