Showing posts with label The Bank That Used to Be. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Bank That Used to Be. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

The Bank That Used to Be - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

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The Bank That Used to Be

 

This temple dedicated to work and thrift

Is mostly empty now; its marble floors

Feature sticky yellow feet to keep

Errant capitalists away from each other

 

The offices are vacant; the lights are dim

A lonely teller in chemical-purple hair

And painted, rhinestoned, clawlike fingernails

Counts not deposits but her MePhone keys

 

There is no line along the yellow feet

Only one communicant with a deposit slip