"Andrew On Prostitutes" 
by Gibran Khalil Gibran 

THE EXCHANGE

Once upon a crossroad a poor Poet met a rich Stupid, and they conversed. And all that
they said revealed but their discontent. Then the Angel of the Road passed by, and he
laid his hand upon the shoulder of the two men. 

And behold, a miracle: The two men had now exchanged their possessions. And they
parted. But strange to relate, the Poet looked and found naught in his hand but dry
moving sand; and the Stupid closed his eyes and felt naught but moving cloud in his
heart.