just enough

for an empty pop bottle

we'd get two cents.

a nickel for the large ones.

a half dollar

for the wooden crate

they came in.

it added up

over a summer.

plus

the yards we raked,

the grass we cut,

the snow we shoveled.

the cars we washed.

anything

to make a buck.

and in the end, somehow

is was just enough.