What Bonus Poem by William Kofoed

Feeling hopeless

Feeling down

Looking at the paper

Here in my hand

They say it's a bonus

They say it's really good

But what I read

Sounds like a bill

I need lots of money

More than I have ever had

And give it to them

I don't understand

They'll give morepapers

They say I can sell them

Are worth even more

But I don't got the money

They want for all that

Don't got the money

And I never will

It just worthless paper

They gave to me

I can't sell these papers

Got no money for them

This isn't a bonus

It is more of a bill