ELEGY FOR FIFTY CENTS
about those unworn baby shoes,
don't leap to tragedy.
everyone knows babies hate things on their feet.
they kick them off.
frugal parents hock them at a yard sale.
this is not news, no
know:
even at the bottom of an iceberg
hope floats
Allison's YouTube reading of "elegy for fifty cents"
Allison confesses nothing.
ALLISON WHITTENBERG is an award winning novelist and playwright. Her poetry has appeared in
Columbia Review,
Feminist Studies,
J Journal, and
New Orleans Review. Whittenberg is a ten-time Pushcart Prize nominee.
They Were Horrible Cooks is her collection of poetry.
Killing the Father of Our Country is her latest novel.
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