by Elizabeth Acevedo
Things you can buy
with half a million dollars:
a car that looks more
like a space creature than a car.
A designer platinum purse
to carry a small dog. A small dog.
A performance by your favorite
musical artist for your birthday.
A diamond-encrusted
bottle of Dominican rum.
A mansion. A yacht. A hundred
acres of land. Houses, but not homes.
All four years of college
or beautician school & certificate.
Five hundred flights
to the Dominican Republic.
A half million Dollar Store chess sets,
with their accompanying boxes.
A hundred thousand copies
of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Apparently a father.
From:
Clap When You Land
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