By Todd Anderson
Jan 01, 2009
- I hesitate to make a list
- Of all the countless deals I've missed;
- Bonanzas that were in my grip -
- I watched them through my fingers slip;
- The windfalls which I should have bought
- Were lost because I over-thought;
- I thought of this, I thought of that,
- I could have sworn I smelled a rat,
- And while I thought things over twice,
- Another grabbed them at the price,
- It seemed I always hesitate,
- Then make my mind up much too late,
- A very cautious man am I
- And that is why I never buy.
- When tracts rose high onSixth and Third,
- The prices asked I felt absurd;
- Whole block-fronts bleak and black with soot
- Were priced at thirty bucks a foot!
- I wouldn't even make a bid,
- But others did -- yes, others did!
- When Tucson was cheap desert land,
- I could have had a hip of sand;
- When Phoenix was the place to buy,
- I thought the climate much too dry!
- "Invest in Dallas-That's the spot!"
- My sixth sense warned me I should not,
- A very prudent man am I
- And that is why I never buy.
- A corner here,
- then acres there,
- Compounding values year by year,
- I chose to think and as I thought,
- They bought the deals I should have bought.
- The Golden chances I had then
- Are lost and will not come again,
- Today I can not be enticed
- For everything's so overpriced.
- The deals of yesteryear are dead;
- The market's soft -- so's my head!
- Last night I had a fearful dream,
- I know I wakened with a scream;
- Some Indians approached my bed --
- For trinkets on the barrelhead,
- (In dollar bills worth twenty-four,
- And nothing less and nothing more),
- They'd sell Manhattan Isle to me,
- The most I'd go was twenty-three.
- The redman scowled: "Not on a bet!"
- And sold to Peter Minuit.
- At times a teardrop drowns my eye
- For deals I had, but did not buy;
- And now life's saddest words I pen
- "If only I'd invested then!"
I don't know who to attribute this poem to, but I found it timely given our current market and peoples' wish to buy at the bottom.
- Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous 2009
- Todd
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