twenty-four
john sweet
susan says
when she was seventeen
she fucked her way
across the country
and back again
thenty-four now
divorced
two kids
lives in a trailer park
at the edge of town
overweight
smokes three packs a day
works register
at the day and night
smiles with yellow teeth
when i come over
says she'll blow me
for twenty bucks
i tell her
i only have ten
and she laughs
says
good enough
and gets on her knees