they brought and bring, we all buy that stuff

Carole Webster

stuff
for
sale

from the
dead
we

lay it
out.
It is

within
us,
the

dead
are
within

us:
we
remember

them
the
stuff

they
brought
and

Carole Webster

bring,
we all
buy that

stuff. A
dead
person’s

stuff
it is
for sale.

You buy
her smile
her onyx

eyes, his
curls, her
feet –

bent
toes and a
twisted middle

finger
from
holding

a pen
– but
that

Carole Webster

is my
own
to give

to you,
or her –
yes

the girl
with
onyx eyes

his
curls, her
feet –

bent
toes and a
twisted middle

finger
from holding
a pen,

she
bought
that stuff – all

that dead
people’s stuff
for sale.