BROKE

Never intended to put
anyone ‘on-the-spot.’

& the proverb instructs:
“Lean not into thine own
understandIng.”

Understand, I’m broke!

An ephemeral friendship
will abruptly end.

Something I can’t help.

Overdrawn; in the red.
Need a few bucks to put
an end, to the ‘bled’ that
a few Ks will amend.

“The Lord will provide.”
But he let’s me ‘ride.’

Money is ephemeral,
a wise-guy said.

Let me hear that again,
my would-be friend?
— Ray Laccetti