Paper Dreams

[Guest guest]

Skanky skyline

smogs a cough

on the city.

 

Turn on the

‘Financial Obsession Channel’

It’s nine o’ clock.

 

Time to watch my paper castles teeter-totter.

It’s a wild ride.

 

In and out

and out and in

each day,

I sell to you

what I bought from you yesterday,

(hopefully for more)

 

…and the ups and downs

and downs and up

seem so scripted

like a professional wrestling match,

screaming “buy” and “sell”

like they were being eaten alive by sharks.

 

Greed is like blood in the water.

 

A crazy man once told me that

when I can’t tell the difference

between a check for a million dollars

and a scrap of paper

then I might be free.

 

Who’s fooling whose self?

 

Would you take a check?

(rather than look and see)

 

Money’s made of trees

I laugh,

and the price we’ve spent

to give it worth

costs a soul

it seems.

 

Madness must be catchy.

 

What I’d pay to value nothing.

Then I might give you my coat,

or the time of day

and who knows what more?

(what more?)

 

 

 

 

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