Short Hard Cash Poems

A happy pug adored as essential
had doting owners quite influential
But with the stock market crash
she was sold for hard cash
Now she’s forlorn and inconsequential

1/13/22...

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Canton Here I Come
Written: by Tom Wright
2004 
I once traveled to a big time swap meet,
Thinking there, I’d find a deal so sweet.
I swapped my hard cash,
For another man’s stash,
But it was torturous on knees and feet.
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Mina Verbena is selling her herbs
in a cart that she sets in the road by the curb.
If you’ve got some spare change, then she’s got some thyme,
or a nice bit of parsley, for only a dime.

Mina Verbena grew up in the ‘burbs,
a seasoned young seller with plenty of verve.
Her herbs are enticing, with spice and panache;
to sample her flavors, she favors hard cash....

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Walking on orange clouds until I can't feel without instructions.
Tie the tourniquet as tight as you can as I take in the spring air from my window.
To grieve my past self would require energy that is assigned elsewhere.
Loneliness is my only inheritance. For everything else I use hard cash.
As my spoon loses its shine to the flame I am closer to my destination.
I shall dance with my maker as a reward for services rendered....

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Watch it rip your heart and life away
 Storm blazing in a lonely abyss of terror.
Of no fixed abode, wandering in turmoil,
 Havoc in your soul.
See you drain away to a figment only I can remember.
 Trust has gone, there is nothing you wouldn’t do
To reach your injected glory.
 Too much pain as I watch you quiver away.
Deadly friends vulcharise the corners of your every minute in hard cash.
 Sad to see you go and leave  your life behind
  And travel a road so broken it tears me apart....

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