Rich Man, Poor Man
Rich Man, Poor Man
There once was a rich man
who was so fat that
his pants wouldn’t fit.
The button above the zipper
popped off with a “blink”
when he started to sit.
The button disappeared.
It was nowhere to be found.
The butler was immediately
told to find another button
at the taylor in tovm.
There once was a poor man
who found a used pair of pants.
This wardrobe was so thin,
he had to make his weekly wage last.
The button on the front
somehow had been lost with time
He had to replace it, but
then he didn’t have a dime.
A button, just like the one
needed on the front, was
sevm on one of the back pockets.
The man smiled with a grunt.
With a knife and a little thread,
the back button was fasteened fast
to the front of the pants.
The butler did his job, and
got his master’s trousers fixed.
Now the taylor was on the rich
man’s accounts payable list.
This is a story of a rich
man and a poor man, and a
front button which was lost.
The moral of the story 1S
the unit’s replacement cost.
The rich. man had a bill to pay,
while the poor man was able
to get dressed to work another day.