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Another Bounced Check

Scratch, scratch, My raise should have been
Scribble, scribble, Five dollars more
That's how the pen writes So what on Earth
on check number one. are they waiting for?
Credit bureaus have
The rent is due stakes on my head.
and I can't come through. Bankruptcy is useless;
I am better off dead.
Another bounced check.
Another bounced check.
Tear, tear,
Thrown in the air.
That's what happened
With check number two!

The driveway needs Crumple, crumple,
cement and tar, into the trash.
and let's notforget That's what happened
the Master Card. with check number three.

Another bounced check. Could the world ever be
economicaily free?

Gee,

Another bounced check.

James Felton III
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