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Insurance Shares
One night I had a vivid dream:
I'd bolster up my income stream
By sinking cash in market wares -
I’d buy some safe insurance shares.
When I awoke, without delay
I bought a parcel that same day
And settled back to watch them grow,
But fateful winds began to blow.
A cyclone ripped across the coast;
A swag of houses burned to toast;
A hailstorm dented lots of cars;
Insurance salesman – damned galahs,
Had bet on houses built on plains
That got submerged by flooding rains.
The chairman sent a letter out
To shareholders – “We’ve copped a clout,
Our profits have been knocked about,
And dividends are down to nowt”
(The chairman’s praying for a drought)
And on the market, what a rout -
The share price took a mighty biff;
It slid then fell right off a cliff,
Then a tsunami hit Japan;
Now we were really in the can -
An earthquake hit a southern city;
Those shares were looking kinda gritty;
They weren’t worth one fifth what I’d paid;
I got religion and I prayed,
But things continued getting worse;
I thought I’d quit before my purse
Was empty, so the shares I sold.
(I thought the company might fold)
So now when people say to me
“Insurance is the place to be
With super profits all the time!
They rake it in! it's such a crime!”
I smile and say: “Perhaps you’re right,
Now money’s getting rather tight,
Find an adviser – one who cares,
And recommends insurance shares.”
© Dennis N. O'Brien, 2012
