Making The Noveau Riche

you say I have to get a real life

but I'm not sure how that in making

someone or other rich

is any more real than making

a niche for yourself

well i'm without a zack, a truth

a coin, a kopeck

or an elusive brass razoo

but my dear rationalist

don't dream i couldn't care

i too grow quickly bored

of the clothes i wear so maybe

i should go an get a real life

real like cutting a fine figure

or scraping a deposit together

for if, heaven forbid

just suppose i cannot live

on taxes and goodwill forever

but how is it

that the problem just doesn't seem to press

while my fingers are themselves

pressing hard against the neck

i was sure that i'd suffered

and worked as hard

as anyone I knew

well it seems i haven't

i better damn well fix it and

make it look every inch as though i do

but still

i'll have to go and get a real life

no doubt that it will happen

maybe i've put it off for too long now

gonna see if i can't get something better than a...

maybe i'm amidst of a real life...