Games reward purity The clean winner's impulse Is rocket gruel for piteous rotted daffodils Clean the coffee grounds off your kazoos It's time to party away last decade's music And make a throatload of money Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, Deny the impulse to become a pendulum Swing once and hold and hold and hold Do good things come to those who bait their looks With hard-spun needles from Adam Smith's factory Or can a sea of crooks earn their keeps by pretending to castle Never let your rookeries leave the ground Flightless nests are the only kind That raise the vigorous eagles of victory