Always Keep
three quarters in your pockets
There will be a payphone on
the peak of the mountain
someone might need that
change more than
a parking meter

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I lost my change in
the eighties, every once
and a while a gumball
machine or arcade game
swallowed them whole

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the magicaly innocent
toy ride or the grabber
of plush toy icons
long forgotten
trapped in a glass case
maybe we should try
and lose more