Tongue Of Currency Poem by beibee beibee

in the resplendence of his opulence

he bursts into a rapture of tongues

similitude of esoteric cant

rupee ruble riyal rupiah renminbi

torrent of currencies cascading from the tip

of the money-twisted tongue and again

the tongue turns in foreign torrent

of tongues of currencies

peso peseta dinar drachma lira

franc deutschmark

yen dollar pound-sterling cedi

he pauses as his greedy ogling eyes

venture into space

relating vision of more currencies

won krone guilder shekel

a rapture of spittle he tries to stifle

a man who had all in palatial places

but speaking in state asylum

as he chirps aha aha he ends

his pecuniary cant

in naira and kobo.