It’s all a matter of
accounts and cards
checking and savings
credit and debit
numbers in
and numbers out.
It’s almost like magic
entries appearing
and vanishing
earnings, spending,
spending, spent,
never enough,
never too much.
There’s a running
total online and
a paper summary
once a month
if you request it.
There isn’t a fat wallet
waiting for you
or a pocketful of change.
This is banking
direct deposit, online bills
quietly paid
money becomes
almost invisible, weightless
pending today and
it will be gone tomorrow.
J.K. Durick is a retired teacher, taught for years at Trinity College of Vermont and after that for many years at the Community College of Vermont. He and a friend started following the pandemic by writing a poem for every day – "we now have run out of pandemic and have written 1629 and plan to continue till we run out."