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// 15 A Silver Bit For My Thoughts By Applejack 
// Story: Poetry From Equestria And Beyond 
// by LyraAlluse 
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A Silver Bit For My Thoughts

By Applejack

They say Las Pegasus’s streets are paved with gold,
So I walked down the main stretch of road,
And looked for that gold,

But I found 
Glass and asphalt and dirt and 
Plastic and t-shirts and discarded gum wrappers
And dead ravens and flattened squirrels with the eyes popped out
And loose screws, tires, and orange fragments of mesh construction markers
A landfill of items that were discarded
And no gold among the trash heap treasures 

But walking in a casino parking lot 
I did find a silver bit for my thoughts, 
To make a wish on, to choose my destiny, 

Heads or tails, 

This tiny piece of silver, worth all of the gold, 
Worth all the miles of highway I traveled,
Gold I panned in hidden rivers,
Gold I searched for with metal detectors, 

Long nights of shoveling in the back yard, 
Treasure hunts I went on to find the Lost Gem Mine, 
And all that gold stashed somewhere at the Mirror Pond stamped AJO. 

This one-bit marker was my salvation, 
My answer, my promise, 
A new luck addition to my highway purchased wallet, 

A wish maker; I wished “Can I win a few rounds of
Blackjack? Win it for me, lucky silver bit, please!” 

But instead I found another silver bit, 
Another one-bit diamond in the rough 
And this time I pocketed it for luck. 

And the more I walked the more silver bits I found, 
Two bits. Then five bits. Then ten bits. 
Then 20. Then 50. But still no gold. 

Just luck and some gems when I really needed them,
And a silver bit in my pocket for my thoughts.