Short Overdraft Poems

To lessen this OD of mine
I have dried my teabags on the line
The tea's weak, there's no doubt
it needs help up the spout
but at least it's much cheaper than wine....

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Every human is a baby of a kind
Baby conceived is, a promissory note,
The one just born, an overdraft,
Adult baby, a bouncing check.
Old baby, a withering flower
Which one is perfect baby?...

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Threat? "Julius, cool your jets."
an ides of March overdraft.
The day to settle one’s debts -
when sixty "friends" gave Caesar the shaft.

March 5, 2022

contest:  MARCH IN
sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...

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I am your nurse
I like Southpark
I am a closet Southpark liker
I like a $400 bank overdraft protection
especially during this recession that does not exist
I  wonder if can live without tangerines and chapstick
I like Vets
I like to hear what they say
I am comforted by the comfort I give
I am tender, business like, funny, professional, apologetic
I am lucky to be a nurse...

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I often wonder,
     If there is a Bank of Love
Where deposits are made
     And withdrawals are taken
What would it consist of

In my minds eye
     There would be no vault
No overdraft protection
     No fees or strings or penalties
There would be no loan rejection

A place to go
     If you should find
Love in short supply
     To give or take when needed
 A safe place standing by...

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If you fortune a tangent,
You’ll get a stash,
A rill of crescents pageant,
Old and holding the gash.

Perception not able,
The dynamo dies in the land,
Normal cable to stable,
The bearings of negates and hand.

Piercings whisper through the ears,
Wheat quakes to sliver rum,
Dermis exhalted the overdraft years,
The pollination riffed the drum.

Chrysanthemum sung to oak,
To know the structure is of the silk,
Bacchus architectured folk,
When muscle, mind ruptured n’ did silt....

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