Jake's Flea Market

but now he can drive the lioness to church on sunday
and i don’t have to use our old truck 
and time i don’t have   i don’t have time 
to haul the loads of potatoes she digs
up from her garden to the farmers’ market so his highness
will have what he calls pocket cash

abby says he’s a parasite

i’m afraid she’ll look
for the old man in the child ‘til she finds him
then speak her contempt so it seeps
into each syllable of the child’s name

yet we must call him solomon

the lioness says we have a duty
to name the child to remember the old man


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