A poet knows that the bottom line

A poet knows that the bottom lineIs where the Truth dwells

Just as the banker knows

Thats where it lies

It is the payoff after all

The twist in the tail

The moment of truth

Even when it lies

Both know you can tell a storyWeave a legend

Hoist a sail and embark for a land of dreams

As long as the bottom line is what it seems

In Shakepeares time the bottom line was a couplet

Which targeted your soul preciselyWhich goes to show that a clever man in a doublet

Could wrap things up nicely

The bottom line has more power than you thinkAnd its message is sometimes darker

The problem being that however cleverly you approach it

You end up sounding like Dorothy Parker(from THE FRUIT THAT BITES BACK and TOO CLEVER BY HALF copyright E. J. Ward 2016)