{"id":2623,"date":"2016-12-16T09:27:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2016-12-16T09:27:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:27:39","slug":"poem-pick-pockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/16\/poem-pick-pockets\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Pick Pockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>More reliable than a GPS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>If surrounded by plenty<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And struck by want<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>You are in a shop<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As goaled to led<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Buy that invisible hand<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Only wanting<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Too pick<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Your pockets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t buy happiness &#8212; but not for want of trying! \u00a0Chasing wealth is a perennial favorite for robbing us of our deepest human potential. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/Buttons\/Life-is-what-happens-while-your-making-other-plans-John-Lennon-quote-SPIRITUAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/Life-is-what-happens-while-your-making-other-plans-John-Lennon-quote.gif\" alt=\"Life is what happens while your making other plans. John Lennon quote SPIRITUAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>This poem employs\u00a0the allusion of alchemists pursuing changing lead to gold; or, in this case, irony, as the reverse is procured (<em>As goaled to led<\/em>). \u00a0Money changers gruelingly posit the more-difficult-than-need-be question: you&#8217;re money or you&#8217;re life? \u00a0Money changers yen for that pen ultimate exchange rate wile yielding nothing, a part from their life. \u00a0Money is perhaps the least accurate representation of life, which is given and taken so freely. \u00a0What a barren prospect that our human evolution is chiefly picking pockets that are madder-of-fact productive or beguilingly reproductive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/Buttons\/There-Is-No-Gift-Like-The-Present-SPIRITUAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/There-Is-No-Gift-Like-The-Present.gif\" alt=\"There Is No Gift Like The Present SPIRITUAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/Buttons\/Pardon-Me-Are-You-Sack-Religious-SPIRITUAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/Pardon-Me-Are-You-Sack-Religious.gif\" alt=\"\t Pardon Me, Are You Sack Religious SPIRITUAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>This poem is timely amidst the heavily commercialized Christmas season where the human spirit seems entrapped within mass produced stuff rather than flesh and blood. \u00a0May you find yourself, in good company, wear that most precious, is given freely as received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More reliable than a GPS If surrounded by plenty And struck by want You are in a shop As goaled to led Buy that invisible hand Only wanting Too pick Your pockets You can&#8217;t buy happiness &#8212; but not for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/16\/poem-pick-pockets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[5,440,80,267,359,66,658,94,53,111],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-christmas","tag-evolution","tag-happiness","tag-irony","tag-life","tag-money","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-short-poems","tag-wealth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Pick Pockets | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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