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| Above: Screenshot from the Farm Crisis Center webpage. See also PewTrusts Stateline. |
Cows have been milked
and chickens fed.
Daddy’s awake since
before a light’s been
switched on Wall Street,
All this talk about commodities.
Finances flopping,
unmanageable stress.
I heard the neighbor tied a rope
on a beam in the barn.
Hanged himself.
He tried the suicide hotline,
but the phone rang off the hook.
Denise Sedman is an award-winning poet from the Detroit area. Recent work has been featured in San Pedro River Review, Nassau Review, Gravel Literary and Poets Reading the News. She has a poem in the 2017 Nasty Women anthology by Lost Horse Press. Her signature poem “Untitled” was the source for architect students at University of Detroit Mercy to build a temporary environment in Detroit. The original poem was featured in Abandon Automobile, Wayne State University Press, 2001.