Nickel, Dime & Penny-Ante Poverty…By Robert M. Katzman
September 18, 2011
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Happy meal
Happy meal
Happy meal
God Damn it!
I’m so unhappy!!
Can’t pay rent
Can’t move
Can’t pay doctors
Can’t get sick
Can’t afford to stay well, either
Tires’re bald
Can’t pay Triple A
Can’t get a flat
 My teen wants clothes
And knows that’s out
My wife?
Dinner & a movie
No chance
Can’t buy a smile from
Either one of ‘em
Only the dog’s happy to see me
 Drag my sad self through the door
Tail tick-tocking
Licking my face
Jumping around
Better keep feeding that dog, man
Or there’s no one
I know so much
How to fix anything
How to do all kinds of things
A man of the world
But not this world
Maybe the old world
This one doesn’t need
Guys like me, any more
Politics?
Talk-talk-talk-talk-talk
Retire
Pension
No worries
Who ARE these guys?
Something’s broken
Reason’s out of whack
People & money devalued
Can’t even afford to die
No plot
No life insurance
 Better burn me
I’ll be gone without a trace
Rich people?
When the bottom falls out
What’s gonna hold them up?
Where they gonna go?
Poor people are everywhere
Waiting for them
Rich people:
Bet you think this is a poem,
Don’t you?
Publishing News!Â
Bob Katzman’s two new true Chicago books are now for sale, from him!
Vol. One: A Savage Heart  and Vol. Two: Fighting Words
Gritty, violent, friendship, classic American entrepreneurship love, death, heartbreak and the real dirt about surviving in a completely corrupt major city under the Chicago Machine. More history and about one man’s life than a person may imagine.
Please visit my new website:Â https://www.dontgoquietlypress.com
If a person doesn’t want to use PayPaI, I also have a PO Box & I ship anywhere in America.
Send me a money order with your return and contact info.
I will get your books to you within ten days.
Here’s complete information on how to buy my books:
Vol 1: A Savage Heart and Vol. 2: Fighting Words
My books weigh almost 2 pounds each, with about 525 pages each and there are a total together of 79 stories and story/poems.
Robert M. Katzman
Don’t Go Quietly Press
PO Box 44287
Racine, Wis. 53404-9998                                                           (262)752-3333, 8AM–7PM
Books cost $24.95 each, plus shipping
For: (1)$3.95; (2)$5.95; (3)$7.95; (4)$8.95 (5)$9.95;(6) $10.95
(7) $11.95; (8) $12.95; (9)$13.95 (10)$15.95 (15)$19.95
I am also for hire if anyone wants me to read my work and answer questions in the Chicago/Milwaukee area. Schools should call me for quantity discounts for 30 or more books. Also: businesses, bookstores, private organizations or churches and so on.
My Fighting Words Publishing Co. four original books, published between 2004 and 2007 are now out-of-print. I still have some left and will periodically offer them for sale on my new website.