House Raus

When you're buying a house
you're expected to offer
(close or about)
your entire cash coffer,
and pledge to expire
with no wealth left to keep;
when all that you wanted
was someplace to sleep.

Inside the walls

Buying a house is a game I have played,
it's a complex and tedious sort of a caper.
You think wood's the stuff from which houses are made;
by the end you can see they're constructed of paper.