Catch

 

He asks, less subtly, what is the meaning?

It’s true money doesn’t always fall from the ceiling

but he can’t beat the feeling.

 

(I’m a pretty picture on the wall,

You’ve made me seem that small).

 

His eye on the TV, the other on the phone,

I age painfully like an overdue loan,

Or a fed up, washed out crone.

 

(I’m a pretty picture on the wall,

I find empty space when I fall).