For you, nothing less
than perfection.
When you buy a woven
basket at Happy Village,
it will help end poverty.
Your cerulean wool Earth Boots
save the planet.
Life often
pocked. Unspeakable.
A lip of broken porcelain.
A nest of matted goat hair,
where sick infants sleep.
People wait for a bus,
you drive past them,
their sweating faces,
huge plastic grocery bags
full of boxed macaroni
and cheese.
You think, too bad
they don’t have a car.
Your car full of
recorded dolphin sounds.
So soothing.
If life throws
a donkey head
clotted with blood
in your path,
what will you do?