they could you know put my face on currencies of the world; I mean it’s so simple an idea and ingenious and so original, I’d think - though you may beg to differ or disagree most violently depending on your humor but still I wonder no one or nation has thought of it this simple act of having my visage on the national currency
It’d lighten up things you know and people all over the world might have a lively conversation point as when they see my Alfred E. Neuman image and they’d say to one another: Who’s this ****** idiot? Or someone else might say: Anybody knows this clown? And then they’ll really have lots to talk about as they wait for their planes to fly again anytime after nature decides to send smoke signals in the skies
So really I don’t understand what these nations of the world are waiting for, do you? OK, I mean they might have inhibitions like copyright and privacy issues (like how’d you put a living man’s face on a national currency? but really, if they want to put my face up on world currencies that are legal tender and linked to real sovereign states recognized by the United Nations (banana republics need not apply) maybe this poem will resolve the issue
Look, my face could go on the American dollar and they could say: Honorary Citizen Or, OK: Alien – not the movie, but the person The British could put my face on the pound and have the words below: Raj for King of the UK And my own fair and beloved land down under could put me on a hundred dollar note with the words: Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Yeah, my destiny in life is to provide mirth; as long as others are happy, that’s good enough. Or Australia could dump British Royalty from the five-dollar note and put my face on it instead – I don’t mind going cheap, you know…
And imagine what good might happen if they decided to put my face on the Renminbi: Hey, the Chinese yuan may just appreciate and what luck that’d be for America – which brings me to another reason why the Americans should put me on their notes: surely it’ll have a downside effect and their currency value will go down naturally and give them a competitive edge over the nation behind the Great Wall; and the Indians, yes, they could ask dear old Gandhi to take a rest and use my face instead, with the words: return of the prodigal son after being a swineherd…
Look, the Euro Currency could have my face on a Michelangelo David (naked) (and they could change Euro to Eros?) and it’d draw a lot of attention away from the financial woes of Greece and Italy and Spain; and surely the United Nations could do well to teach humanity a lesson by negative example by minting UN money and having my face in its first issue with words of gold clearly below my visage: Not the way we want to go…
But look, whatever the countries of the world may decide they’d better decide fast for I might just change my mind overnight or even change my face (you know plastic surgery and the lot) and quite frankly they’ll have greater copyright issues after I’m dead with a garrulous widow whom I’ll leave behind and my poor desperate progeny who are still trying to save some money for a deposit for their first home in the lucky country… So government leaders and Presidents and Prime Ministers take note you don’t need to queue there’s no bureaucracy and no forms to fill up even though you are world governments I know I’m dealing with – just do it but do the have the decency to send me a note…. just so I know… and you might, if the notes are legal tender and completely revolting to the citizenry on seeing my visage and countenance on their national currencies (which wouldn’t surprise me cos I’d just be quiet disgusted to see their faces on my currency) you might send me all the money so long as they are all legal tender…