now here comes a wizened old man
pressed blue jeans clean cotton shirt
dusted-off cowboy boots (no hat)
silver hair damped down slicked back
he hurries for the new-fangled swirling doors
holding a shiny tin can low
below his leather belt
where you’d expect pliers reins tin snips
the can stripped of its wrapper
pork & beans chili con carne peaches perhaps
a humble tin can filled with sweet peas
I will add thee sweet peas in a tin can
to the very short list
of things in this world
that money can’t buy
PS: thank you Guy Clark for the first two things
true love & home-grown tomatoes
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