Priceless

My old Sony boombox: $100: musical and poetical communion with Kurt
Cobain, John Lennon, Trent Reznor and others One US Airlines Ticket to
Hawaii: $750, exposure to a mute version of the "Smallville" movie:
vistas of black volcanic rock, jacuzzi visions of my island kingdom,
friendship with a 6-foot sea tortoise dinner for two at the Black
Sheep, 10 drinks: $82.75, a mild hangover: a night with Aphrodite,
induction into watersports, fond memories a bag of weed, a plain, red
glass bong:$115, my work ethic for a couple days, sound sleep:
tutorship by Orpheus, an opportunity to write "The Borderlands" a gold
watch by Seiko: $150, my frugality: a daily reminder of my value,
dreams of myself as a movie star a one year subscription to Discover:
$45, humanist enlightenment: membership in the brave new scientific
world, an opportunity to learn of humanity's brotherhood with life from
the depths of the sea to the depths of the earth a realist: the solaces
of cynicism, the ecstacies of optimism: a man who knows both the price
and the value of things