Margaret Ross
Dec 15, 2018
2 minutes
MACHO
A man in long shorts had a tiny dog
he tossed into the leaves piled at the edge
of people’s yards, the dog
the same brown as the leaves.
Too small to bark
it squeaked as it was tossed.
I was seeing someone and we passed iton ourstuck dollar bills over coils of shitthen watched who came alongand picked them up. Then they jeeredfrom the window. They were in collegeliving together. Girls lived together tooand it was warm enough you couldstill see them tanning on a roofor in the kiddie pools they draggedto strips of grass along the sidewalk.
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