Scott Simpson · Poetry
Scarcity
Use For Kindling · source pages 28
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Scarcity
The shelves
were bare:
no toilet paper,
no meat,
not even the usual
boxes of pasta.
I wanted to hoard,
like a squirrel
before snow.
But then
my neighbor said,
We only have two rolls left.
And I opened the cabinet,
took out three,
walked them over.
Somewhere in that walk,
a feeling
settled in my chest:
not fear,
but enough.
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