Greenbacks

 From birth
to my
youth,
things came
to me
simply

From adolescence
to my latter
teenage
delirium,
life
came vigorously

In adulthood
things have 
s l o w e d
to a
crawl

and my
genuflection
to the
almighty
hand
is at it's
apex

but through
the years
I've learned

a simple
piece
of pressed
cellulose
dyed to
a putrid
green

makes us
and 
devours us

In the eyes
of society

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