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Economic Scoundrel: An Interactive Poem

In an Old Bank

Down on Wolf Street, New York

He computed every last computation

He punched every punchable key

Nothing could multiply his profit

Probably it wasn't counted

To his own income account

Down there in Manhattan

She computes

Endlessly Because of This Gift

I Have It So I Can Manipulate It

Bend It To My Will

Made of Rubber or Not or Hard Plastic Probably

I Was Disturbed by Her Face Because Her Greed

Goes Unquestioned

I Can't Believe She Collects

Or Anagrams or Anasolves Each Item

What she has in her apartment

No one knows, except for

Crisp, SawBoard-y Cardboard

She turns on the lamp at night

Each window lit just right

God knows what she has up there

What she collects in the upstairs attic

Who knows what's inside those PigBellAlarms (tm)

Or if fake cherry fruits ever helped her live better

If she goes to the Protestant or the Catholic Heaven

We only know what kind of devotional she reads at night

 What she keeps up there is a bunch of boardgames

I think we are more than friends. We are inner happiness.

We are riches. Real riches.



3 comments:

  1. You guessed it. She's a Red Rhum Kickstarter. Why do we kick the drum?

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  2. Tami: It sincerely made me feel very scared.

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  3. Spoken Word Poetry involves some voice acting as they still have to be creative.

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