They Sell You What Disappears
~Hoa Nguyen
They sell you what disappears it’s a vague ‘they’
maybe Capital T who are they and mostly
poorly paid in China
Why does this garlic come from China?
It’s vague to me shipping bulbous netted bulbs
Cargo doused with fungicide and growth inhibitor
What disappears is vague I can’t trade for much
I can cook teach you cooking ferment
bread or poetry I can sell my plasma
They are paid poorly in Florida
picking tomatoes for tacos
Some CEO is surely a demon
in this poem
Need to buy need to buy or else
you are always paying rent one month away
from ‘the street’
3 neighbors asked for money this week
We are guilty
bringing in sacks of food bought on credit
Trademark this poem mark this poem with a scan code
on the front and digitally store it somewhere
not to be memorized “by heart”.
Picture found here.
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