Holy Pockets

Mike Essig
Other Voices
Published in
1 min readAug 19, 2020

Who knows where the time goes?

All those years
thoughtlessly carried
in my pockets
emptied out quickly.

Spending my time
as if it were endless,
I nickled and dimed
myself into old age.

Everything falls away.

Be very wary
of what you don’t
pay attention to.

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Mike Essig
Other Voices

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.