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When youth is gone
and you figured no way to acquire
power and money
stand beside a road
selling 2 bunches of wild scallions tied
with discarded twine
on the border of Thailand and Burma.

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Craig Cotter was born in 1960 in New York and has lived in California since 1986. His poems have appeared in hundreds of journals in the U.S., France, Italy, the Czech Republic, the U.K., Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, India, and Ireland. Books include The Aroma of Toast, Chopstix, Numbers, and After Lunch with Frank O’Hara.

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