The Trauma of Money by Dale Williams Barrigar

(I am pleased to inform the readership that DWB will be presenting new works for the next several days!-Leila)

If you’re not good at

getting money

and keeping

money

or if you

don’t have money

or if you’re

out of it

right now, or

hard up today you are

pushed to the side

way to the side

almost off the side

or maybe right off the side

of everyone’s mind

and you are thought

way, way, way,

WAY

less of

by

almost everybody,

indeed…

In fact, if you

are not good at

getting money,

or keeping money,

or don’t have money

right now

or if you just cannot hold

onto it very well

once you do

finally

get it

(and, sometimes, you do

finally get it

out of the blue)

because you

gave it all away

to someone else

who told you they needed

it more –

you are

pushed

way, way, way,

way

off to the side

marginalized and alienated

and looked down

upon

spat upon even

thought less of for sure

and frowned upon

by almost everyone

in the good old

USA, today

(or,

almost

everywhere

(but not

everywhere),

globally).

Dale Williams Barrigar

(Images courtesy of DWB)

11 thoughts on “The Trauma of Money by Dale Williams Barrigar”

  1. Dale

    Somehow the ancient and wise barter system was first converted to paper gold then something whose value is utterly imaginary. But the pain–that from living on fifty bucks a year somewhere in India to having to live a life in which no day is much different than any other for fifty years until you are so used up they kick you a pittance and laugh at you until you die–causing that pain, reaping from that pain is evil. No bastard should be worth what we pretend Musk to be. And yet we covet the positions of evil, like that dim-souled fuck in the top image.

    Well struck!

    Leila

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    • DWB's avatar DWB says:

      Leila

      Yes. Not for no reason did Paul say the LOVE OF money is the root of ALL evil. And the coveting of, and utter obsession with, billionaires and trillionaires only assures us all that they will be around for a while. No one needs 100 million dollars times ten much less WAY MORE than that. How ridiculous and everyone is fascinated with these people!

      We need to see them as the greedy predators they are and TAKE DOWN THE SYSTEM!

      In the meantime, TURNING AWAY from the system (quietly and privately inside) is something everyone can do immdieately.

      Dale

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  2. chrisja70778e85b8abd's avatar chrisja70778e85b8abd says:

    Hi DWB

    Ah for the love of money…

    Why is money such a God?

    and you are Godless without it.

    I like your well placed prose.

    So much said with so less

    it really hits a person

    The strife for this currency.

    I felt the same way

    marginalized into the have nots.

    I think after reading this

    my comments are, unintentionally, trying to follow its structure.

    That’s what excellent writing does.

    CJA

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    • DWB's avatar DWB says:

      CJA

      Glad this poem infected your commenting style.

      Reminds me of how Hemingway and Fitzgerald used to influence each other.

      I’d rather have your writing talent, creativity, and spiritual understanding than a trillion dollars any day of the week or year or ever!

      DWB

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    • DWB's avatar DWB says:

      One of those pics is Bukowski and his artist girlfriend LINDA KING and another is Bukowski’s literary magazine which he did with Neeli Cherkovski…The guy in the middle is a real window washer Bukowski knew.

      The other pic is a representative sample of a rich fool!

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    • DWB's avatar DWB says:

      Thanks, David. I wanted this to drive it home hard without being heavy-handed. Too many people are too serious about these things, even though these things are also too serious!

      Dale

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