Friday, February 26, 2010
Legal Tender
A forty-year-old woman
dressed as the Statue of Liberty,
holding up a red-white-and-blue sign
about mortgage rates, waving
at traffic from the sidewalk,
lips set, smile dead
on the ground —
put that on your bill and smoke it.
(first publication)
Updates:
“Legal Tender” added to Poems, Slightly Used.
My thanks to Lynn Behrendt for adding yesterday’s dream, Cucumbers, to the Annandale Dream Gazette.
In the Forum: cooling toads.
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2 comments:
tempting !
Yes, maybe if we put poor mothers on our currency instead of founding fathers, we will think twice about the meaning of money....
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