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Fiscal Manifesto
by David D. Varella
I will not spend ‘til my debt end,
Not carry debit card about,
Nor to complain or sulk or pout;
To debt got in, from debt get out.
I have a plan to force my hand:
Fiscal aimlessness to stall,
Fiscal safeguards to install,
Lest temptations do enthrall.
Avoiding strife, for now in life:
Securely place my debit card,
Not touch another credit card,
Distinguish wants from needs, though hard.
Use only cash to be not rash;
Put all my cards into safe-keeping
So that temptations won’t be creeping
Which add to debt another heaping.
Banks make plastic too elastic:
Too easy now it is to swipe,
Spend far too much on deal-hype,
Wants to needs too oft restriped.
I have great books, but for more look:
Those already owned I’ll read,
Then from booklust I’ll be freed
And pay off debt with greater speed.
To be content, from greed repent:
Spend not with liberality
But fiscal practicality,
Learn virtue of frugality.
To increase health would save a wealth:
Change menu to eat whole-foods way,
Far from added sugar stay,
Exercise as doctors say.
To fast a little makes not brittle:
I’ll tighten my belt at the waist,
Eat fridge-stuff to nothing waste,
Eat for strength and not for taste.
Though summer’s hot, sweat-drenched a lot,
To get to gardening outside,
To take a walk with ample stride,
Or puff on my tobacco pipe.
To give my mind time to unwind:
To sit and think in mental chime,
To write a journal entry fine
Or structured poetry with rhyme.
And now I fear I must end here:
In time right living will bestow
Fiscal virtue, this I know,
Through this fiscal manifesto.
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