You browse E-bay.
I scan Shakespeare: pleasure/
treasure, have/grave.
You find a deal out loud,
vieni, guarda, a leatherbound,
five-hundred-year-old
poem in your tongue, one
you won’t read, bid on
to show how you can snag
a Ludovico at low cost,
that beauty’s rose might
never die, nor I deride
how you expend
time & money.
Hilary Sideris is the author of several chapbooks and two full-length manuscripts, Most Likely to Die (Poets Wear Prada 2014) and The Inclination to Make Waves (Big Wonderful 2016).
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