Eight-line Poems

Legal Tender

Legal Tender

“I promise to pay the bearer on demand…”
not that I ever heard of anyone
so bold as to ask for the gold,
defeated, as no doubt they were,
as how to gain the most benefit
from the fabulous yellow metal,
the point being, of course,
to rid our pockets of such heavy tender.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 02.25.22
Prompt: 1862 – US law is passed authorizing the United States Note (greenback) into circulation, first flat paper money as legal tender.