In our city, notices were nailed to trees
“House for sale, land for sale – price negotiable”
It is strange that later those trees themselves were also sold
But for a fixed price

Now there are banks in the place of those trees
Bank employees have pasted loan notices
On the surviving trees
They sell money to the public

But they are very fair
When loans for gardening are delayed
They give a discount of one percent

…My friend who is in debt
Reads the loan notices
And I
Read the fate of the tree on which these notices were pasted

But one piece of news shook me
One notice said that a kidney was being sold
This news also shook the tree
As if the tree was a dialysis patient

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