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Content warning: Contains themes of death.

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i got enough ones to last hours in The Chantilly Lace
under the dryer sheet box in my utility room
because whenever i find them in the pockets
it’s the laziest option at hand

i got over fifty bucks in loose coins
mostly sticky, that i will certainly die without spending,
inside a sock that’s inside another sock
because it doubles as a blunt force object

i got two one hundred dollar bills deliberately tucked,
one in the breast pocket of each suit jacket,
unable to remember for the life of me
which is funeral and which is party

i got a thousand or so in various denominations
rolled and packed into the inherited knickknacks shelved
two arm’s lengths from my front door just in case
some ballsy kid stops by trying to sell some scout shit