Poetry
A Few Bucks Short
I know about silence
and the severance paid
with words, and the way
the currency is measured
in equity and not equality,
and how there is always
incorrect change and no sales
and voids, and at the end
of the night, when the lights
dim and the alarm is set,
the till of words is always
a few bucks short.
David R. DiSarro
David R. DiSarro is currently an Associate Professor of English at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. His work has previously appeared in Conclave: A Journal of Character, The Wilderness House Literary Review, The Hawaii Pacific Review, and Shot Glass Poetry Journal among others. David’s first chapbook, I Used to Play in Bands, was published by Finishing Line Press. He currently lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts with his wife, Riley, five children, and two rambunctious dogs.