when you get
your social
security
check you go
down to the bank
and cash it in for
for quarters
placing them
all into a red
tin bucket, you
call your friend
irma, tell
her to put her
knitting needles
down and come
on, let's roll.
then you get on
the greyhound
bus and go to
atlantic city.
it takes all
day, two packs
of cigarettes
and a half a
dozen gin fizzes
but finally all
the quarters
are gone.