Stuck in an Hourglass
A poem about fitting in where you don’t
Published in
Feb 25, 2021
Put me in a room half a floor up
from sparkling socialites flirting
for a tip, and paying it forward
like a golden ticket.
Give! Give!
Until all those six-inch slips
- and more to stick in the artisan’s mouth -
Condense to sickly…
