Grant's Gloom
It wasn’t easy
for Joe Parisi
to make ends meet
on Walton Street.
It took a mint
for him to print
rejection slips
that he would place
inside a SASE
so many times
along with rhymes
I’m sure that he’d
neglect to read.
He lived on tips
and was depressed.
Who would have guessed
that Prozac could
make Joe feel good
without a pill?
But thanks to Lil
and Prozac wealth,
financial health
is now at hand.
Whatever’s planned
for Prozac’s money,
it’s sort of funny
on reflection
to know it will
enable Joe
to speed rejection-
slips and so
more sad bards
will take it hard.
Not to be cynical,
but their moods may turn clinical,
and thus willy-nilly
they’ll profit Ruth Lilly.
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