Attention flows like money through a hose
That’s always pumping out until we sleep
You turn and direct where the money goes
And choose to whom it’s paid and is in receipt
Pay handsomely to a lover in romance
Or lose interest and starve and neglect
Attention rewards from the circumstance
Being brutal, based on credit or debt
For if you pay enough to that being taught
Then knowledge will trickle slowly to your well
But pay less to those close than you ought
And one day there’ll be no one to sell