The floating currency
sunk me as
the gold standard
left me,
economies troubled me
banking baffled me
thank god for the floorboards
under which
I hoard all my cash .

Running through this is
a common denominator,
a fate that frustrates me
and
Irrelevances that castrate
me,
impotently
I wait for the end.

The end comes with Value added tax tacked on to the end of it.