Kristi Estefania Stout Larios

SONNET FOR THE EMBODIMENT OF MY BIGGEST EARTHLY FEAR

there is always an eat pray love at the goodwill
I don't care what state you're in

sorry let me be more specific there is always a paperback
eat pray love at the goodwill

the eternal paperback eat pray love at the goodwill
I can see the middle

aged woman soft in all the places
she never thought she'd be
thumbing it sighing thumbing it
trying to become julia roberts by osmosis sighing thumbing it
and a oh what the hell it's only two bucks, you know something like that

and then the soft woman sighing thumbing it couldn’t become julia roberts and instead found the same nothing
nothing nothing it fixed nothing maybe some spring cleaning will do the trick

I could weep thinking about it