bread, flour, sugar

i couldn't tell you

what a carton of eggs costs,

or a gallon of milk.

or a gallon

of gasoline

for the matter.

bread, sugar, flour.

who knows

these things?

i haven't cut a coupon out

in like

never.

it's not that i have money

to burn,

it's just how things are now.

my mind is elsewhere.

ask me about larkin,

or bukowski,

plath or sexton.

mark strand. 

carl jung, there is so

much

more

left to learn.