People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it, <br />And I wish I could afford to gather all such people into a gloomy castle on the Danube and hire half a dozen capable Draculas to haunt it. <br />I dont' mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, <br />But I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it. <br />But no, they insist on being stealthy <br />About the pleasures of being wealthy, <br />And the possession of a handsome annuity <br />Makes them think that to say how hard it is to make both ends meet is their bounden duity. <br />You cannot conceive of an occasion <br />Which will find them without some suitable evasion. <br />Yes indeed, with argumetsn they are very fecund; <br />Their first point is that money isn't everything, and that they have no money anyhow is their second. <br />Some people's money is merited, <br />And other people's is inherited, <br />But wherever it comes from, <br />They talk about it as if it were something you got pink gums from. <br />Perhaps indeed the possession of wealth is constantly distressing, <br />But I should be quite willing to assume every curse of wealth if I could at the same time assume every blessing. <br />The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, <br />Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor. <br />Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny - <br />Have you ever tried to buy them without money?<br /><br />Ogden Nash<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-terrible-people/
