Just money

I've been finding money everywhere lately. I have lost track of how many dollars I've picked up off the ground in bits and pieces since January. So I've started either giving the coins I find to people or leaving them in tip jars so I can spread some of this luck around.

I found the penny in the picture the other day by the busses at Forest Hills. It's pretty mangled up and you can even see the zinc beneath the copper layer has been exposed. It's barely a penny any more, and I can't put my finger on what's so strange to me about that. When I picked it up, my first thought was, "Is that all money really is?" A symbol, a set of agreements, a collective hope, a zinc plug with a super thin layer of copper for show.