Debit and Credit

or, The Ledger

Her Ministers were ill behaved;
She sat and smiled and squeaked and waved.
As poor and migrants were reviled,
She squeaked and sat and waved and smiled.
When poverty arose and peaked,
She smiled and waved and sat and squeaked.
Say what you will, but give her that:
She waved and squeaked and smiled and sat,
But when her bills would come around
She stood, spoke up, and fought, and frowned.

Queenie Blackstone