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6d
"Money can't buy everything."
Oh, sure it can.
"It can't buy happiness,
It can't buy friends."
Of course it can.
"Perhaps you're right,
But they'll never be real."

So what?

Math is fake,
Economics is fake,
Language is fake,
And yet,

It is what's fake that allows us to cooperate.

"But money corrupts!"
For sure, so what?
My friend was earned, not bought
By kindness, not cash.
Yet still, for twelve years we have been
Fake friends.
And one day she left
Because my value was spent.
I don't need money to have fake things.
I can get those for free.
"But why would you?"
Because it meant something to me,

Real or not.

"Oh, but money is greed."
Of course, greed is as certain as gravity.
So why did the tree fall?
"Gravity, of course!"
As if gravity wasn't there when it stood for forty years.
Ah, right.

Perhaps it was the axe.

So, why did my friend leave?
Certainly not greed,
That was there when we got along.
"Because she was fake!"
As if she wasn't fake for twelve years.
Ah, right.
Perhaps it was...

Well I'm not sure, you'll have to ask her.

I buy fake jewelry.
Because I can't afford the real thing.
And I care not for luxury,
So long as the substitute won't turn my skin green.
And even then,
With a clear coat of polish,
I'm satisfied and the goal is accomplished.

So what if it's fake, it's still pretty to me.


๐๐ž๐ซ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฌ
๐ˆ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐›๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ,
๐Ž๐ง๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž
๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ.

๐Ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฌ,
๐ˆ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ,
๐Ž๐ง๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ
๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ.

๐–๐ก๐จ ๐š๐ฆ ๐ˆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ž
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž?
๐–๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ˆ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž.
๐€๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ž.
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