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a penny saved

triggered by Mary’s Lost a Penny

Joe Váradi 🇭🇺
1 min readApr 4, 2020

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a penny saved

a penny saved, a penny earned
hard won coins are best kept urned
play the stocks and you’ll get burned
savings lost, hard lessons learned
wealth and comfort overturned
last year’s lofty gains returned
cyclicality confirmed —

are you 'bundantly concerned?
conventional wit be spurned
this poem is now adjourned

written in the style of

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Joe Váradi 🇭🇺
No Crime in Rhymin’

Editor of No Crime in Rhymin' | Award-Winning Translator | ..."come for the sarcasm, stay for my soft side"