MONEY BOX
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Magdalena Ball (Australia)
Boxes for dollars
cells for a shrinking
heart
coffee ring laminate
text to column
sunlight for fluoro
trees for a blinking
migraine
the money box never lies
statistics always arrive
a few minutes later
than you need.
It adds up if you don’t
check the backend.
The wind is getting up
but lines and cells hold
me
such soft lines, I never
imagined
this would be the way we’d end
tapping out seconds
one hundred bullet points.
nerves in exposed bones
picking up the pressure
whisperingone day
I will break this code.