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Money or Music

from Ensonglopedia of the Human by John Hinton

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What am I?
What am I?

I’m a cultural phenomenon
Many thousands of years old.
It takes skill to make me
And I can be bought and sold.
I can make you feel good
But I can also make you sad,
And when you’ve got none of me,
That’s definitely bad.

What am I?

Am I money?
Or am I music?
It’s so very confusic.

What should I do?
What should I do?

Should I be making a mint
At a desk in the city?
Or should I stay skint
And compose my next ditty?

I have two daughters.
Should I support us
By slaving away
At a job every day?
Is it more important
To have an assortment
Of musical instruments
Cluttering my house
Or to be able
To put food on the table
Like a good, stable
And diligent spouse?

What should I do?

Should I money?
Or should I music?
It’s so very confusic.

What do we
Want to be?

From cave-dwellers jamming with a mammoth-tusk flute
To stock market traders wearing suits in pursuit
Of a quick buck we’ve come far,
But how do we feel about where we are?
If you squint you would mistake us
For die-hard money makers
But money didn’t make us
It just helps us to trade.
If you strain your ears to listen
You’ll discern our primal mission:
To be through-and-through musicians.
But I’m afraid we’ve strayed.

If we valued musical notes over banknotes
If we traded in sounds not pounds
If we based ou r retail on the musical scale
There’d be a lot more musicians around.
What do we
Want to be?

Do we want to be money?
Do we want to be music?
It’s so very confusic.

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from Ensonglopedia of the Human, released July 18, 2021

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