Holy Sonnet $ (Debt Be Not Proud) Poem by John F. McCullagh

Holy Sonnet $ (Debt Be Not Proud)



Debt be not proud, though lenders label thee
useful and powerful, for thou art not so.
For those poor souls who take your ready dough
Pay not Principal, just interest and the fees.
Unlike cash wealth and true liquidity
Which, in sum, denote prosperity,
Your burden would enthrall them where they go
And collection agents nightly tell them so.
Your rates are slave to a data dependent Fed,
and you are a poison consigning men to Hell.
Cash wages are what we need to slumber well,
Free of this debt incurred with the stroke of a pen.
One more loan payment and we will be free.
And Debt shall be no more. We'll be debt Free.

Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: debt
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With apologies to John Donne, Holy Sonnet X, and to all those who are still trying to pay offtheir student loans.
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