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Time for Some Help

Barbara Brackney

We’re down to poor peoples’ eggs--
the ones with blood spots or gummy bones, so
my mom knows she’d better get married.
She found the Sergeant last night and liked him right away--
he won big at poker, bought a car and had cash leftover.
She’s giving him the treatment--time alone for a week.
We live in a hotel--there’s nobody there who can look out for me--
that’s why she left me at this rooming house.
I make bacon grease and sugar sandwiches
for breakfast and lunch...a woman makes dinner.
I don’t have to talk to anybody.
There’s a huge stack of comics to read.
I know she’ll hook the guy,
and things will be better.

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