Pound Of Flesh

Living in one
renting the other
Owning them both
then to discover
As owner I’m captive
the tenant is free
In debt to the banker
—remortgaging me

(The New Room: January, 2024)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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Greenhough Avatar
January 12, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Ha ha. I love this and identify with it. Definitely a fave.
Behm Avatar
January 12, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Yep, the banks own most of us. Have a great weekend. I still reminisce about when I was a poor, single, writer, living in a tenement neighborhood in West Philadelphia. (55 years ago) Even back then, the freedom I felt was like dying and going straight to heaven. No mortgage, my utilities came with my rent, so other than food and gas (.35 cents/Gal.), and I only had a motorcycle, living was cheap. I was also a graduate student, pumping gas at a local station at night and making $80.00 a week. I got to write all night in between the cars coming in for gas.
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