"Smart" (A Leadership Primer?)

My librarian friend Dana is anxious to help me be a smarter and better self-actualized legislator, so she shared this with me:

My dad gave me one dollar bill
'Cause I'm his smartest son,
And I swapped it for two shiny quarters
'Cause two is more than one!

And then I took the quarters
And traded them to Lou
For three dimes-I guess he don't know
That three is more than two!

Just then, along came old blind Bates
And just 'cause he can't see
He gave me four Nickles for my three dimes,
And four is more than three!

And I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs
Down at the seed-feed store,
And the fool gave me five pennies for them,
And five is more than four!

And then I went and showed my dad,
And he got red in the cheeks
And closed his eyes and shook his head-
Too proud of me to speak!


-from "Where the sidewalk ends", Shel Silverstein, "Scholastic" (October ,1996)


Postscript: On the other hand, are the above stanzas any goofier than the policies and practices of some of our leaders?