Money Note

The Money Note Bad time for shipping and I had no work, slept on the sofa in my mother’s small flat, she sat up late drinking coffee, reading and smoking cigarettes. I had a small unemployment benefit, mother took most of it for lodging, I spent most days outside trying to find work and sometimes I was lucky and got a temporary job as a washing up at a cafe or cleaning the floors. The old church in town was open to eight in the evening I often went there to rest and sort of half sleep, one day in the front of me I saw a big money note -500 coronas- picked it up, put it in my pocket and debated whether to keep it or give it to the verger; then organ music started can’t bear it and I left. I thought of dinner and a nice bottle of wine, took a closer look at the note, it was 500 coronas ok, only it was monopoly money and quite useless, back in the church I put the note in the collection box.