How Poor Were We?

© Elizabeth Larrabee

Welfare?

the Great Indignity.

Sizzling bare feet

on black tar streets?

Those sizzling dog days of summer.

Baggy bloomers

swimming with horseshoe crabs

in the mucky Danvers River.

B & M Baked Beans for supper

Gawking through

Skedd's Bakery window

feasting on undulating smells

of cinnamon and chocolate.

Hunger was so constant

a companion we hardly noticed.

So what's the difference?

We grew up and

we grew fat, anyway.

© Elizabeth Larrabee

Earliest Recall | Lady Slippers | How Poor Were We? | Free Food

The Smaller The Bigger | Mud Flats | Speaking of Smells | Random Pieces

Growing Up the Hard Way  | No Bogey Man | Green Apples | Poor Buster

Up and Down | True Friends | Moving | Rosie's Hangout | Crystal Ball

You weren't so Hot After All | Haunts | On Acting the Way You Feel | Amen

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