Please no applause, just throw pennies.

Please no applause, just throw pennies.

A starving artist can't afford to be so picky.

If people threw pennies, I'd buy a loaf of bread,

A jug of wine and thou so fine with processed cheese spread.

If people threw pennies, I could write full time.

Perform in places grandiose, make my star shine.

But pennies are hard and they hurt when they hit,

But knowing money's, money honey, I don't give a sh*t.

English pounds are good and euros fit right,

Just beside the yen in my wallet nice and tight.

Dollar bills are dollar bills, American fare.

But pennies are the best of all flying through the air.

Cause who wants pennies? No one that I know.

The most annoying change there is but pennies tend to grow.

In piles large and small, stacked upon my bedroom shelves.

If you take care of your pennies, dollars take care of themselves.

So when you're out walking and performers there perform,

Anticipating shiny pennies raining down like a storm,

Don't hesitate to capitulate, from your purse you can squeeze.

There's no cause for mass applause, just throw pennies, please.

Author's Note

Reviews

[Kaity Fisher]

This was really good! I like the concept you used, I never would've thought of pennies that way. Funny how something as simple as this made me smile. Hard to do. Great job, keep it up!

For improvement, you have a couple of grammar issues:
"The most annoying change there is but pennies tend to grow," "is," should be "are."
Another one is "So when your out walking and performers there perform," "your" should be "you're."

[Raymond Federle]

Thanks for finding the typos...spotted and fixed. :) However the is...well, grammatically speaking 'are' is the proper usage at that point in the sentence I'm sure but I went with 'is'. I'm sure it has something to do with growing up in different parts of the country with different accents and different dialects. For something that small I can forgive myself and use a bit of poetic license. In similar situations such as the usage of word 'wash' spoken as 'warsh' it drives me nuts! My ex- wife always says "I'm going to 'warsh' the clothes." and I'm like "Oh really? Going into battle with them honey? Let me see you war-sh face, AHHHHH. There, that's a war-sh face." LOL Thanks for your review though. I had funn with this piece also! :)

[Kaity Fisher]

Haha okay. Sorry, I tend to be a grammar nazi at times. I understand different dialects and dialogues. Just know I wasn't trying to be a jerk, I was just trying to improve your work!

[Raymond Federle]

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[Raymond Federle]

Reading some of my older stuff this morning so I thought I'd pull this off the shelf and dust it off for all to enjoy, so.....ENJOY! :)

[Alicia Schroeder]

I love this, what a great write all in itself, pennies are underapreciated by most, but I love them still.. Great work :)

[kublakhan27]

A very intriguing piece that gives the proverbial starving artist a voice, and a powerful voice at that. People tend not to consider pennies as an object of significance, but you've shifted that way of thinking perfectly here. Very cool piece :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Interesting. I like the feel of the poem and the theme - did you mean to say PRE form or perform?

[Raymond Federle]

AHHH, you caught a typo! You win a cookie! Not really but it's the thought that counts. Typo squashed and corrected. :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Yeah, umm, not everyone likes me to catch these little annoyances, but I appreciate it when you point them out to me. :)

[Raymond Federle]

Myself as well. I'd much rather have people tell me when they find something than have it look like I typed it by pounding on the keyboard with a rock and a stick. Thanks again!

[FlatLineBeauty]

This was really nice! I loved it. All those pennies... the "annoying change" adds up! xo Winter

[Haley Harrigan]

Wow! This is great! I truly appreciate every piece of it! The flow is good, not hard to read. The rhyme scheme is wonderful. Each stanza has its own meaning. I enjoyed this very much.

[Dan Hiland]

I'm not a big poetry fan- mainly because I connect more with narrative. But I like the tone and the bouncy feel to your poem. And that line ending with "processed cheese spread" made me laugh. Will be checking out more of your work here. And thanks for reviewing "Fish Triangles".

[ayele marie dalmeida]

i love how you put this piece nicely. i agree with the reviewers it is a clever way to get your message across . nicely done