'Keeping Up With The Joneses' Poem by Linda Winchell

Spent four dollars on a fancy, 'Decaf latte’'
But all I did was pee it out and bloat!
Had a salad piled high with all the fancy trimmings
But felt like some grazing old, ” Billy goat! ”

Wanted to keep up with the Joneses
Wanted to fit into that jet-setting scene
I wanted to look like the others do
Slim, sophisticated, cool like and lean.

This living up to the Joneses
Might seem the in thing to do.
Well it isn’t the game I wish to play
Now maybe that’s what you wish to do?

But I’d heard the Joneses filed bankruptcy
And were being tossed out of their home.
I guess the money they spent on Lattes and salads
Could have been better used and spent at home?

There’s a price that we pay for all our wants
Some are not so kind to us in the end.
When trying to live up to the Joneses
And pay the price they now had to spend.

Now I’m going to take what I would have spent
And let it accumulate in a jar.
Then send it to someone who needs it
I’m sure God will show me who they are.

I’ll stamp the envelope and mail it out
To a needy persons home.
And I think the first one I’ll send it to
Will be addressed to dear, ” Mr. and Mrs. Jones! ”