How The Bankers Foreclosed About Him

How the bankers foreclosed about him
We shall never know
How he stretched his credit rating
That is covered too

Spreads the bank its interest charges
Bold about the boy
Whose unpaid for hat and jacket
Sum the history

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n.b. NaPoWriMo 2023. Day 14 prompt, parody of, or satirise a well-known poem.

Here using Emily Dickinson’s ‘How The Waters Closed About Him’

How the waters closed above him
We shall never know
How he stretched his anguish to us
That is covered too

Spreads the pond her base of lilies
Bold above the boy
Whose unclaimed hat and jacket
Sum the history

CLP 14/04/2023