THESE WORDS TOO COULD BE YOURS FOR A PRICE

Written by Stephanie Berger

Dearly beloved     I’ll be your host 

tonight     a very sassy ghost     your auctioneer

for we are gathered here     to celebrate 

the union of two     beautiful clauses     I’ll start 

the bidding at a hundred dollars     Just kidding!

At the low, low price     of a single single     I told him 

to say that     to put it in     those very words 

to auction off this sentence     which is not mine 

to keep locked inside     lady's gut causes 

truth decay    over time    shut down    

gets expensive    depreciates so   I would encourage you     

generally     of course     support your 

ectoplasmic lips       opening      thirsty skeletal              

but also     to divest      yourself of all       

belonging     to live with a pack    

of hungry street dogs     for once    in your life    

you could empty yourself    like a bucket      but of what     

do I know      really     about life?     

I am not Jesus      nor have I ever been      

hungry     I did not live     through the Black      

Death & become      modern     

with the rest of you