If humankind was just one man His house would be the world He'd live on only takeaways The curtains never furled His clothing would be shabby Just a mess of cloth and strings But on his little finger Are a dozen diamond rings The body might be starving But the pinky hoards its gold The hunger could be ended With a single diamond sold The kitchen could be mended The gloom made slightly brighter That's not the pinky's problem So it holds on even tighter It hires the other fingers And one adjacent thumb To stab the legs repeatedly And beat the kidneys numb The body starts to waste away And much to its surprise Along with every other thing The little finger dies