Coin Incidences

Come and take me home like fine pebbles
you pick from the ground.
I am new and fine says the 100 Naira note.
Awo’s face, as bright as the sun,
he looked so fresh, the new mint echoed.
Pick it and see, you will turn to yam
Mummy’s voice reminded me in the ghost of before.
So I bent down to pick it up.

Since Dorothy got missing at home
since she turned to a money ghost.
I’ve learnt to pick what is just mine
Not mints lined up, not ever again.
Dorothy got missing from poison
but the whole town said it was money.

Ruddapoet