Payments

The mortgage payments will be temporarily stopped, but interest will grow.
‘The cost of doing business,’ the lady says.
‘What business,’ I think.
They will grow rich from our lack.
The credit card company keeps me on hold for an hour and a half. I hang up.
Without permission, I won’t pay.
My kids’ music lessons continue with their teachers on FaceTime.
One plays guitar, the other drums
I will pay these artists.