August 26, 2019
196: Bargain
August 26, 2019
196: Bargain
Bargain
by Andrea Cohen
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We paid him next
to nothing—less than the little
he’d asked for—to lead us
at dusk from the pyramids
on camels into the desert.
Such slim wages
to take us, without
complaint, all that way—
so far, without a star.
We were in the middle
of nowhere, or at its edge.
Friends, he asked, from
inside that blackness,
what will you pay me
to take you back?
"Bargain" by Andrea Cohen from FURS NOT MINE, copyright © 2015 Four Way Books. Used by permission of Four Way Books.