What I Spent $13,000 on Last Month

This month will cost even more!

It appears that I spent thirteen thousand last month, My average amount these inflationary days. It doesn’t surprise me one little bit considering, The ways I’ve been caught in a daze.

I had to purchase that burskin jurskin juzz, And who could ever pass up fifty percent off for fuzz? I bought a flibber-flabber, a zibber-zabber too, Spent a thousand for blibbers, and a dollop of blue.

With a razzle-dazzle here and a snazzle-snuzzle there, I twiddled and twaddled through aisles with flair. A doodle-daddle, a fuddle-fuddle, and then, I found myself splurging once again.

I must have spent at least a thousand on nibbles, And nearly the same for my sweet baby’s kibbles. I spent a few hundred on a dozen good beers, I spent even more on broken antique shears.

A splurge here, a splatter there, oh what a spree, On trinkets, on gadgets, and things I can’t see. I invested in widgets and wobbled on wares, An option on widgets but nobody cares.

Oh yeah, I wish it was so very true, That I spent all that money on something so new. But the truth, I’m afraid, is so very mundane, I paid bills, I gave my kids money, and I rode on a plane.

Alas, the reality is a bit of a bummer, Not treasures and trinkets, just bills without number. So as the tale of my spending does close, I’ll say it loud — my budget needs repose.

American writer