<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549403" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Current Currency</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dollars, euros, yen: <br>they’re all just pretty pieces of rags, <br>cotton, linen, and silk, <br>a bit of Crane paper, so we’re told.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those currencies that no longer<br>predicate their value on precious metals, <br>gold or silver, for example, <br>have no more intrinsic worth than<br>fancy rags made of shirt fabrics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Paper money is then much like<br>a wedding song “O, Promise Me”<br>performed over and over and over<br>until becoming superfluous.<br>Then the wedding guests long<br>for something more enduring<br>like Bach, Chopin, or Mendelssohn<br>(gold, silver, or real estate) <br>with no promises attached.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the mints are inked-up<br>the engraving plates polished to a sparkle, <br>and the fat lady is ready to sing her swan song, <br>“All of Me.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At least if the current currency<br>breaks its promise and leaves me destitute, <br>with no purchasing power at all, <br>I can gather up all those little rectangles<br>and make a quilt or a pair of trousers, <br>if I can learn to sew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sonny+Rainshine">Sonny Rainshine</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549403" data-title="Current Currency de Sonny Rainshine" data-description="Dollars, euros, yen: they’re all just pretty pieces of rags, cotton, linen, and silk, a bit of Crane paper, so we’re told. Those currencies that no longer predicate their value on precious metals, gold or silver, for example, have no mor..."></div> </div> </div>

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