(304): Nearly Broke

Betta Tryptophan
1 min readAug 30, 2017

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A one line poem for Terijo’s Chalkboard prompt “Need”

Image by Andrew Filer via Flickr. Image cropped. License.

Pause, take a deep breath, and think —

Do I really need this bag of cheese?

My mind must ford these waters

At the end of the month.

The Chalkboard prompt post with its myriad creative contributions on this week’s theme:

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Betta Tryptophan

Blue-haired middle-aged lady with a tendency to say socially and politically incorrect things and to make inappropriate jokes. Awkward and (sort of) proud of it