One can buy someone’s bairn,
collect a kidney or chew a cherry.
That is one advantage of indigence.
It ensures availability.
Let this hierarchy of hawking
not puff you any further.
We are all on the rack.
BEST OF THE NET 2023; Essay in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2018;
(cited in BAE 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022); PUSHCART poetry finalist
Issue: Winter 2015 » Poetry
One can buy someone’s bairn,
collect a kidney or chew a cherry.
That is one advantage of indigence.
It ensures availability.
Let this hierarchy of hawking
not puff you any further.
We are all on the rack.
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