Sunday, April 15, 2012

pilfered from NYT

                       ECONOMY


I put my words in a book tallying what, if
any, accumulated effect the labor will produce.

I use a No. 2 pencil with a rubbed
down eraser.

There are scratched
through parts on the paper where I can see
that nothing, really, has come of it.

Nevertheless, it’s a big day.
Someone’s got to give.

So I lick
my newspaper print fingers
and ante up.
 #DimeSucker.

Don’t think you’re hiding in the black
and white.

Not the buildings.
I don’t mind helping.

I don’t know your neighbors all that well but shoot,  Sam.

Why you gotta be like that?

— CARA BENSON
The author of “(made)”

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