One More Silver Dollar
I.
Maybe “ghosting” would’ve been better,
But when the text came in, at midnight,
just simply stating, “Don’t Want You No More,”
I did not feel okay.
But break-ups never feel okay,
yet, when she further texted,
“This relationship?…It’s not my cross to bear,”
I knew I was better off alone.
II.
So I bought the damn bird anyway,
but when it shat the house on the first day
I knew it was saying, “Don’t Keep Me.”
Wondering, now, if it really just wanted to be free.
III.
Gregg Allman bought a raven;
He called it “Blues Nevermore,“
but when it squawked, it said, “Trouble No More.”
IV.
My first college professor
wrote on my first college paper,
“There’s so much grammatically wrong here
that I just ain’t wastin’ time no more grading it.”
V.
