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Change
You are loose change in my pocket.
I don’t really need you
But you stay
right beside
me.
You are loose change in my pocket.
You fall to the ground
You clamber around
You make a fool
out of
me.
You are loose change in my pocket.
You’re never enough
Your edges are rough
Who do you expect
to clean
you up?
Me.
You are loose change in my pocket.
I forget that you’re there
until out of nowhere
You end up
in my washing
machine.
And there,
you tumble.
You collide
with the sides
in an endless cycle.
And I ignore you.
I ignore you!
Just a little bit more!
I’ve lasted five years
With loose change in my pocket.
Surely I can weather this storm.
But I cannot.
And I yell.
And I break.
“Stop it!
Stop it!”
A bit more
is what
I
could
not
take.
I open the washing machine
To make the maddess and the noise and the banging
Stop.
And the loose change flies out.
It hits me right in my face.
And it hurts.
But I have felt worse pain.
I felt loose change in my pocket
weighing
me
Down
for
five
years
straight.
You were loose change in my pocket.
Now
I do not
carry
change.
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This poem is really special to me because it speaks of a difficult period of my life. I hope that other people can relate to it, and that it inspires them to toss their loose change.