COINS

An obol would buy

A large jug of wine or

A basket of pomegranates or

Four drachms of olive oil or 

Good bread for a week or

One third of someone

To have sex with or

Passage to the Underworld.

I had an obol for a while 

But lost it. I now carry

A 1941 Irish penny --

Athena's grim-faced owl

Replaced by an overweight hen

Whose chicks run after her.

It will buy, at best, passage

Halfway across the Styx;

From there I'll have to swim.