We’ve been approved (Great News)

28May08

Now that the bank has loaned us a home,
the bank has loaned us two cars

and we’ve borrowed careers
with our borrowed degrees

and the loans could get called anytime

and our checks to the dr. for kid no. 1
precede bills for kid no. 2

and our socks, select thoughts,
locks of hair, packs of cards

are not ours, and may never be.

I’m thinking we flee with our names
and our flaws
to try starving,
shivering
free.

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