Grandmother is going shopping
for things in Costco®.
Palenque is in Costco®,
Mexico and Italy as well
are also in Costco®.
The days do not end.
Poetry by W.T. tuqMairtin
Tag: finance
Everyday
I count the battleships
Many more, many more do come
In your backyard we eat potato chips
The grey hulls show on water
as if like instruction manuals at night
We cut our hair
to celebrate the information . . . their information
I’ve left the canned chili in the cupboard on purpose
Rodger God comes for the blueprints
And we continue to count many more specks,
many more
on the horizon
We have to hide the information from
they hid theirs from us
You know, the fucked up eyes and fingers
Let us break those fingers and plant the turquoise
in the ground
for the squirrels to love in spring
Go there now in Corvettes,
GMAC Financing has zero percent A.P.R.
Go to the big big bay to see
Poetry by W.T. tuqMairtin
Capitalism is addiction.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, it is.
We’re talking about a freedom
from money and power.
What do you mean?
Blank look.
We’re talking about a freedom
from money and power.
Looks at TV.
I don’t understand you.
I gotta go.
I’ll talk to you next week.
Poetry by W.T. tuqMairtin
Suddenly there was a gas.
People ran out into the street to
celebrate the banks.
“The banks are here!
They are not leaving!
They have our money!”
They cheered loudly and started
collecting money.
They placed the money in a big pile
and had Big Mike bring his flatbed
truck over
to haul the money away to the bank.
The money has intrinsic value that
gives inflation meaning.
A lot of people had Kool-Aid stains
around their mouths.
They were yelling, giving each other
high fives.
Big Mike honked his horn as he drove away.
Who took the money?
Suddenly there was a flash and a loud noise.
Everyone collected themselves and their items.
They went inside their houses
and pulled down their shades and turned
on their TVs.
The Super Bowl was on.
Lots of really cool television
commercials shined that night.
A lot of people had Kool-Aid stains
around their mouths.
Everyone has to pay taxes.
You can’t cheat death, not with that
level of personal worth.
And Jesus, Leroy, isn’t someone always
watching you?
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