Tom Docherty

A DIFFERENT CASH DISPENSER

He sat in the bus shelter waiting
As usual it wasn’t on time
He’d gone through his facebook and tik tok
And everyone seemed to be fine

He glanced around aimless and bored
Just thinking of something to do
People were using the cash machine
He wished he could take some out too

A car stopped outside the bank
Two guys wearing masks rushed inside
They both carried sawn off shotguns
Plain and open with no thought to hide

A loud report rang from the bank
And soon the two thieves reappeared
They clutched several sacks. Was it cash?
The sound of a police siren neared

Their car started moving quite fast
A hand scattered cash from a window
Bank notes just covered the road
The teenager needed no intro

He leapt from the shelter with speed
The money was blowing away
He gathered as much as he could
And legged it without a delay


Tom's YouTube reading of "A Different Cash Dispenser"


Tom confesses: "As I walked down my local High Street, I noticed a young lad standing in the opening of a bus shelter across the road from a cash machine. He looked obviously bored and was enviously watching people withdrawing money. I had the thought of the only was he was ever likely to get his hands on some cash."

On retirement TOM DOCHERTY gained a Creative Writing degree, writing poetry, prose, and scripts ever since. He has achieved hard and online publications In his spare time he makes walking sticks and shepherd’s crooks. He lives in rural Clydesdale and likes to walk the hills and mountains of Scotland and Austria.