(With apologies to the estate of Elizabeth Akers Allen.)
Downward, come downward, O Cost in your flight,
Soaring like Paulhan or W. Wright!
Prices, come down from the limitless sky,
Down to the reach of the Ultimate Guy.
Once you were not quite so far from the ground;
Once we had lamb chops at 10c. a pound.
Give us the days ere the cost took a leap,
When things were cheap, mother, when they were cheap.
Backward, flow backward, O Living’s Advance,
Back from the purlieus of Airy Romance!
Back to the days when a porterhouse steak
Didn’t cost half of what people could make!
Back to the days when a regular egg
Didn’t drive people to borrow and beg!
Oh, for the days when the hog and the sheep
Were not as diamonds–when they were cheap.
(Franklin Pierce Adams)
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