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Life Without a Credit Card
by Victoria Rende


"Cash or charge?" the clerks would ask.
"Charge it please," I always said.


Little did I know I'd have had a stroke if I
could have added in my head


all those things I wanted when real need
was nowhere found,


filled up my mind, my house, my life
till one day it all crashed down


upon me like a ton of bricks or
death read in the cards


when my husband opened up my mail and
took my credit cards!


I watched in tearful agony, swearing I
knew that I could quit


as he took my faithless scissors and
cut them all to bits!

Image by Emily McClain