part of a poem i'm writing for creative writing.
sherman, surely, but he wasn't there;
instead, a t.v. infomercial and the damn cat
flickering adjacently, pulling air into bone-caged balloons
with little puffed coos, scrabble letters like cartilage on the table
spelling troubadour, blimp, and haveyoureallygone?
his wallet: three flaps holding a dollar
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