Fine Ants and Finance

 

 

Fine Ants and Finance

What have they in common?

Or, what have they in contrast

Lest we have forgotten?

 

Well, they sound alike

If only at first

But if pronounced properly.

This must be reversed.

 

One we could do without,

Of one we are in dire need,

They both cost us some trouble;

One very much indeed.

 

 

One befriends the poor

The other is of the rich,

One is needed to deal with one

According to the script.

 

One is often lagging

Especially for the poor

Who are frustrated with the other

Creating many a door.

 

 

So many spots of entry

Besides window and door,

And through the many crevices

Found in any floor.

 

Regarding fine ants,

Such a lack is appreciated

While re the other ‘sound alike’,

On more we are fixated.

 

A little more is the cry

For the wretched poor

While for the filthiest of the rich,

Just a billion more.

 

 

Much there is in contrast,

In common, not a lot,

But having a lot of one of them

Puts us in a good spot.

 

 

Not so with the other

And you know which one,

It’s the one we have the most of

That we wish was gone.

 

Stewart Russell © May 26, 2025