Supply=Demand
by Ricardo Sternberg
Supply=Demand
Quarter to four on a Sunday
as the snow began to fall,
she entered the room and whispered
I wish for once and for all,
you’d tell me how much you love me
and how long that love will last
for doubt has crept into my heart
and passion is fading fast.
My love is a little machine
that’s always set to GO
it runs off a battery of kisses
but the battery is getting low.
My love is a little machine
but it’s running cold today.
Join me in bed and let me
stroke all your doubts away.
Oh not so fast my darling.
I’m not easily assuaged;
when I saw your wandering eye
it drove me to such rage
that I chewed seven boxes of pencils
and painted my toe-nails black
then mixed a toxic cocktail
and prepared to bivouac
outside the gates of Melancholy
in the country of Despair
in the house whose name is Grief
and end my suffering there.
If my wandering eye offends
then I’ll pluck it out in haste
but I swear to you my darling
your suspicions are misplaced.
A steadier heart has no man
who ever loved or wrote
and if I seem distracted
and at times appear remote
it’s the law of love and business
it’s as Adam Smith commands:
I’ve restricted the supply
in the face of low demand.
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The End
And that’s the End of the Poem
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