53 years
of collecting money
seeing the new turn old
people and cars makes no
difference - fifty three years
outside a booth collecting
and waiving past, cheating
a bit - like when he let me
park for free - or asked me
for a bit more - 53 years is
before i was born - i wanted
to ask was it worth it - what
you saw and did and did not
do - one night i will close my
eyes and he won’t be around.
but then it won’t matter - in 13
days he retires replaced by an
automated arm
