REPTILE BLOOD

 

I do not understand things like
Money, or at least not well;
I save it, am careful
About managing my paychecks
So that I’m not broke.

But she was an expert
In such matters—
Her job required her to be.

And her excision of me,
Despite past declarations
Suggesting this an impossibility,
Was as cold
As a fleecing
Of hard cash.

It’s in the blood,
I think;
And people with
That blood
Have, and
Always will,
Run others,
Casually,
Into the ground.