Deal

Suddenly you are twenty-three
and should have life all sorted
trying not to think of how morbid
is not knowing where else to be.

Don't ask things from the devil
cause he might give them to you -
do you think you have the metal
for the wave that shall come through?

Keep the money bill at the ready,
you never know when he may come
saying he just wants to drink some
and watch trash on the telly.

For a piece of you and one hundred,
a bit of peace and a home
but all others are discarted
by the beating of his drum.

11/01/2018