Payday Loan (Tom's Book)

Robert Greene, the First Bohemian - public domain

This earth is running out of water

I offer a twenty, but you’ll take fifty

in advance of forgotten payoff

solace is a four-letter word

we’re taking it to the bank

breaking it off into crumbling little bits

rumbling pieces

spreading it around

rewritten morals of the story

rising angst filtered through shame

lust manifested seedlings

pushing bulbs

sprawling roots

down drying along these racks

concentrating efforts withering

across time and in the sun

Matt Mauldin
1/2018
Santa Barbara, CA

Originally appearing in Another Way Round

https://awrjournal.wixsite.com/anotherwayround