Beetlebung and Kettlehole--April Poems

Checks

she fidgets at the desk
writing checks
locked inside herself
guarding the money
the task her karmic gift

but the balance
can be scandalous
since she patrols
on the same lame feet
blaming the beat

hold back or yield,
yet she knows
time is not what she owns
as the cash she has amassed
sifts away between
the pen and her fingers

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Prompt: money