EARN $$$ FAST - August Chaffin

Sold them my religious upbringing for $0.03,

sold them my first kiss and then

played the Yatsy Game Mobile App

to earn thirty-eight conditional cents

to be given upon completion of level fifteen,

contingent on me forgetting the tumble of dice

across the butcherblock, that wooden thunder.

For forgetting my mother’s face, I’ll get

an extra $0.02. My two cents is that

with the cost of living these days,

everyone should be selling their thoughts

in exchange for pennies from the government.

We shan’t leave any stone unmonetized.

Look in the mirror at that poor man,

the numbers on the gas pump

rising like those other

giddy and excitable appendages.

I’ll even sell my dirty socks and underwear

to the perverts. Fuck it. I’ll give them it all.