Yellow Mama E zine

Money

 

by Zvi A. Sesling

 

 

           A dog barked. A man shouted. A car horn honked. In the back alley a young man learned faux love from an older woman.

           A dog barked. A man shouted. A car horn was silent. In the back alley the woman pocketed her ten dollars. The young man lay bleeding on the cold pavement. 

           A man in a pickup truck stopped for the woman. She said a number. He nodded. She got in. The young man got up, wiped blood away. A dog no longer barked. A man reentered his house. A car horn was still silent.  

          The driver stopped on an empty street. He turned toward the woman. She put a knife in his heart. She emptied his wallet, exited the pickup and walked away. The young man went home, washed his face, changed clothes, went out. A dog ate. A man was dead. A pickup truck parked, its horn silent.

          The young man walked down the street. The woman spent her newly acquired money. A man walked a dog. The man in the pickup truck was found dead by the police.

 

 

          Zvi A. Sesling, Brookline, MA Poet Laureate (2017-2020), has published numerous poems and flash/micro fiction and won international prizes. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he has published four volumes and three chapbooks of poetry. His flash fiction book is Secret Behind the Gate. He lives in Brookline, MA. with his wife Susan J. Dechter.

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         Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal lives in California and works in the mental health field in Los Ángeles. His artwork has appeared over the years in Medusa’s Kitchen, Nerve Cowboy, The Dope Fiend Daily, and Rogue Wolf Press, Venus in Scorpio Poetry E-Zine.