splat #25

25 cents
ain't worth much
you got no sense to be dealing
still there was a time a quarter could

haggle for the price of a candy bar
or the newest spiderman comic
something like william shatner in the old twilight zone
before he became captain kirk

threw a quarter into a collection box
where it stood on edge
for the duration our hero
could read minds

a ditz's flatline and vacant stare
and a thug's plan to rob
the bank that was foiled
but in the end left our man hanging

nowhere