Supply & Demand - A Poem that was published in Fun for Kidz Magazine, with the theme, Fun with Business

by Melissa Ann Goodwin

I went to buy some widgets
but they did not have enough.
I asked the man who sells them
and he said, "Aw, gee, that's tough!"
He sent me to another store,
the man there said, "We will get more,
but when we do,
they will cost you,
a whole lot more than they did before!"

I did not like his answer.
I did not understand.
So I asked my friend the banker
to lend a helping he hand.
He said, "When there are widgets few,
the price goes up,
for those who do
have widgets, can demand a price
that sometimes does not seem so nice!"

Sometime a while later,
I went back to the store,
the place was filled with widgets
from ceiling down to floor.
A sign said,
"Buy one get ten free!
We've got too many widgets, see!
And now we have to sell them cheap,
because in widgets we are deep!"