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ts735b in Poetry & Free Verse

Nauseating buzz feeding frenzy at local ATM

Fraught traumatized wordsmith

telephonic grand slam rent psyche asunder

witnessing helpless cannibalization,

hospitalization, victimization

concerning writer of these words,

and riders on the storm

namely robbing me third eye blind

of legal tender

under the convincing guise of Apple

computer technician pretender.

Buried deep inside

the dark webbed wide world

yours truly sends electronic sos

while being twirled

to and fro hither and yon

seeking emotional, mental,

and spiritual reprieve.

Incalculable loss of

countless crisp Benjamins

hungrily sucked up

and spit out as Bitcoin cryptocurrency

triggered stark realization

being under wicked spell

of one who calls himself Harvey Specter.

He cast a trance

upon body electric of mine

asking, coaxing, finagling,

ingeniously luring me to forfeit

every bloody red cent

constituting checking and savings accounts

two of each now registering zeros.

Quite an exhausting effort

taxing body, mind, and spirit

to wrench unhealthy vice grip

from out the analogous maws

adrip with bloody flesh.

No explicable rhyme nor reason,

how sense and sensibility

got blindsighted, when ordinarily

keen acute insight

can scent out immoral treason,

nevertheless when cruising cyber seas

late morning June twenty first

and also the twenty second

human piranha unexpectedly

found fresh kill in season.

Dumbfounded at mein kampf now

how stupid of me to surrender

blithely, forthrightly, willingly

thousands of dollars

as if held spellbound

under a somnambulant trance.

I keep reliving, requisitioning

and revisiting hellish nightmare

corporeal entity

waking up in a cold sweat

although dog tired

muster measly necessary energy

to summon sleepwalking

disembodied spirit

quietly whetting appetite

to succeed realization

bringing to fruition

impossible mission to catch thief

finally hatching pièce de résistance

witnessing long overdue comeuppance

to him who exploited innocence

of one aging beatle brow

foo fighting baby boomer

reduced to pennilessness.

Ye dear benevolent reader

might be tempted to rebuke or scold

(spare the rod, cuz I give myself

a regular severe dressing down)

merely seeking, praying,

and kick/jump starting

philanthropic aid forthcoming.

Unlikely culprit(s) will be caught

most likely rejoicing regarding

psyche of fraught

punishing me where

rainy day fund rendered naught.