Wall Street Poetry

Diamonds are a Stock-picker's Best Friend

She's your embraceable baby

when stocks are high

but beware when they start to descend

it's then that those galls

go back to their spouses

Diamonds are a stock-picker's best friend.

Day-traders love old sweethearts

equity analysts love their Wall St. darlings

who give expensive jewels

I've heard of affairs

that are strictly platonic

a one-night stand, or two

may be quite continental,

but Diamonds are a stock-picker's best friend.

A tongue kiss may be grand

But it won't pay the rental

on your exquisite Manhattan

Central Park 7BR-flat

not even Porsche & Lamborghini

sport car's monthly lease.

Or help you win big

at National Lotteries or Caesar's Palace

spoiled braths, indecent rich girls grow cold

as respectable stock-pickers grow old

don't we all lose our charms in the end.

Getting rich by leveraging extraordinary

unsavory multipliers, perfecting the art

of hypergamy, marrying up with a dashing smile

square-cut or pear-shaped

Cartier's rocks don't loose their shape

Diamonds are a stock-pickers best friend.

Talk to me pretty Tiffany, Harry Winston

there may come a time

When even dishonest brokers need a lawyer

Diamonds are a stock-picker's best friend.

Romantic nights in Casablanca

you must remember this, my dear

a sigh is just a sigh, a fuck is just a fuck

the fundamental things in life apply

as time goes by, and time rolls on

gold-seeker's everlasting youth is gone

you can't straighten up when you bend

stiff back, stiff knees, stiff all over the place

but you stand straight at Tiffany's.

Gold AmEx credit cards, diamonds

I don't mean Rhinestones, insufficient funds

or FeS2 Iron Pyrite, superficial resemblance

to 24K Gold, also known as fool's Gold

Diamonds, diamonds, only diamonds

are a stock-picker's best friend.

Credit where credit is due to the everlasting lyrics of Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend (Marilyn Monroe), and As Time Goes by (Play it again Sam + Humphrey Bogart).