April 17, 2010

#394 1998 nickel

she was a cerebral experience after seven years of emotion
inspiring, plain, and simple, plain and simple
inspiringly naive
she saw positive superlatives in everyone
the kindest, the nicest, the most passionate
and me
the most potential
she was as shiny coin new to circulation
but four years of wear and of grimy palms
loosened her luster
and she no longer stands out in a cash register
or in a stack of nickels





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