After “Where Lean and Lovely Meet”

by Mary Ann Taylor, on frugality

Being frugal is not saving your life’s savings for your children

By sleeping on a saggy mattress with springs poking through

Or wearing down the carpet by your bed until your bare feet

Touch bare wood subfloor.

Nor is it asking ChatGPT about frugality

To save brain time/function/vacancy:

"O let me live where lean and lovely meet"

Is its greatest line

Written in less than one second.

“frugal” stemmed from “fruit”

So, the lesson here is that we must be

“Careful” and “economical” with this new

And tempting tool

Lest we leave the children unable to discern

Hallucination from truth.