Not for sale: hit and run

by Rebecca Brown on October 1, 2015

you: a lake in June
and I’ve forgotten how to swim

and how to find the lake in the dark

remember fall?
when the mothers picked apples

and we snuck through the church
looking for holy water?

I got stung by 20 bees that day
and didn’t mind

I like sitting outside with you
better than almost anything

at least because it seems like
you like sitting outside with me

I don’t buy brand name stuff
so much any more

but mostly just because
I don’t like spending money

but I would like spending money
if you liked spending money

or if you wanted to save an endangered species
I would too