ten acres for sale

those fields use to be

full of corn, he says,

standing

on his porch

which is about to cave in.

we had cows.

that over

there was the school,

my kids went to.

he points

to a pile of red bricks

across the road.

it was different

then, he says.

we played bingo on

Saturday nights

at the Knights of Columbus Hall.

my kids were young,

my wife alive.

she won the blue ribbon

nearly every year

she entered her blueberry pie.

there was so much time

ahead of us, so much time.

i'm sorry, he says,

for going on like this, 

i've taken up

enough of your time.

go ahead and plant your sign.