Recycling and Cashing In
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 11 No. 5, "The Meaning of the McSurely Case: A Seventeen Year Inquisition." Find more from that issue here.
recycling
I rummage through
the rusty
rubble
of other
people’s lives
digging the dump
for some
thing
that I
will use
in some new
way they
never thought
of
cashing in
her right breast
was removed
last April
because of a malignant
lump
in May she
started
spending money
fast
as if somehow
she might buy
back all
those scrimping
years
in cash
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Sheryl L. Nelms
Sheryl Nelms is a painter, poet, and weaver currently working on an M.A. degree at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has had hundreds of poems published and is a contributing editor to Streets and Byline magazines. (1983)