love in the markets
love in the marketplace
someone has a card
to fit your mood
a dollar fifty
snail-mail
or e-
love in the marketplace
someone has a card
to fit your mood
a dollar fifty
snail-mail
or e-
amorous dollars
transatlantic euros
pound signs for the eyes
the ticket-price of love
not love itself
transatlantic euros
pound signs for the eyes
the ticket-price of love
not love itself
hopefuls
in the friend zone
in the place of love
displaced
close but
no embraces
never enough
closeness
no cigars
no chocs
in the friend zone
in the place of love
displaced
close but
no embraces
never enough
closeness
no cigars
no chocs
consumers
in the money zone
in gold we trust
will you still feed me
I know you won’t
need me
money can’t buy me
a better class
of friend
in the money zone
in gold we trust
will you still feed me
I know you won’t
need me
money can’t buy me
a better class
of friend
70 bucks
fizz and fun
it’s that money thing
eat out your hearts
two as cheap as one
who loves you baby
my girl lollipop
hey big spender
that’s the way to do it
money for nothing
fizz and fun
it’s that money thing
eat out your hearts
two as cheap as one
who loves you baby
my girl lollipop
hey big spender
that’s the way to do it
money for nothing
© Brian Hill
Brian Hill. 50 years a poet. One-time designer and film-maker; long ago, the rhyme-slinger, cartoon cowboy, and planetarium poet; now feverishly stringing words together in the hope of making sense.
