-1928-
There are whispers,
Whispers of something coming.
A time with no money.
Maybe it's just some
Panic.
I wonder what they'll do,
Without money.
It's all they talk about.
What'll they do,
If it's gone?


-1932-
They've gone.
No one has been  here for years.
I guess it was true,
What they said
About the money.
There'd been some talk
For a while.
But this time,
It was
Real.
They ran out of money,
Or, maybe someone took it.
Either way,
They couldn't save me.







*Meaning: This is told from the point of view of a house during the Great Depression. The family he is housing has been hit by the Great Crash, and have been foreclosed out of their house--him. The beginning (1928) starts the year before the stock market crash, and the end takes place a few years into the Depression (1932).