cash or check

when you finish a job,

you want

to be paid.

cash or check.

forget about Venmo

and Zelle,

PayPal

and a wire transfer.

no credit cards either.

it's cash,

or a check, 

simple and clean,

at least

for me.

which sends the clients

under forty

scrambling,

searching for the last

check in an old

checkbook

stuffed in a drawer

with dried up ink pens.

i admit it i

i'm still stuck

in another century.