The Death of Currency

Posted by Brad Osborne on July 29, 2021 · 23 Comments 

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The ink stained linen and shiny coins

That have passed through ten thousand hands

Have gone the way of the dinosaur

As technology overtakes the brand

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Commerce becomes digitized

Cash now offered with apology

Greenbacks on the barrel head

Are now an ancient oddity

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Plastic and our cell phone apps

The currency of the day

Friday lines at the bank

Erased by direct pay

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And beggar on the street corner

Hoping for the change we can spare

Is greeted by the empty hands

Of empty pockets with nothing there

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I used to save my pennies

In a jar beside the bed

Now that hungry vessel

Is rarely ever fed

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Gone the tiny portraits

Of Presidents from our past

Who ever thought that trusted bills

Would die out so very fast

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