25). Monopoly

modern poetry

A guest tag.
He had people
Full time;
They let him go by,
He was already in.
I don't know about being young.
I would have been.
I don't know what I went through in school.
I was still deciding what was.
Everyone did.
One year I won't have
Checks for it.
Don't realize
Nominal support.
Not from when we met each other, though.
Anyway, I'd have to think about what they meant.
They were a monopoly for awhile.


"Monopoly," poem twenty-five of "Lettersongs," unpublished work © 2008,
Lisa Page Weil.  All rights reserved.