Traditionally, Sourcing Innovation would chronicle the wit and wisdom of the SpendFool on December 31, but ever since he announced his departure in the seventh comment to a post on SpendMatters last year, he’s been quiet. As a result, there are no comments to base my annual wit and wisdom post, which chronicled the best of the ‘Fool’s comments during the year. So instead, I bring you “Ode to the SpendFool” in the hopes that the ‘Fool will accept my offer and return to the space (as a[n anonymous] contributor on Sourcing Innovation should the ‘Fool so desire).
Ode to the SpendFool
so full of wit
who could strike down with his pen
the loudest of twits
Ode to the SpendFool
experienced and wise
since the departure of your voice
others have tried to improvise
but none have approached
the supernatural shiver
that your prophetic words
would always deliver
So I beg your return
before the realm of the blog
becomes a wasteland
covered in fog
For those of us left
fighting the surge
without your help
could soon be submerged
by the voices of irony
and the voices of doubt
and the voices of fear
that would spread chaos about
lies of omission
and tales of despair
of those that think before acting
and let their savings vanish into thin air
We know the truth
and spread it we try
but we’re few against many
who try to drown out our cry
So return to us SpendFool
let the space here you wail
with your pen on our side
we may yet prevail!
For those of you who yearn for yesteryear when the ‘Fool’s voice was strong,
here are quick links to the three “Wit & Wisdom of the SpendFool” posts: