Down the Drain

A Coroner's Report

He dropped his savings in the rain,
He'd just come from the bank.
He watched his life go down the drain
Into a septic tank.
I assume before the fatal fall
Had gone his precious pride
From affluent to effluent.
The verdict: sewer-cide.

by Alan Harland
in volume 5 issue 2

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