Spending Time

I don’t want to put 5
more cents in the meter
just to hear you lie again

or add another 10
to try and make sense
of why you scream

I’ve wasted shiny 25’s
more times than I can count
on forgiving and forgetting

on reasoning why it’s okay
and how next time will be different
you’ll choose a different way

No more.

Sometime between the last trip
down this road and now
someone came along and stuck
tape around this meter

This one is broken
not accepting change.