National Poetry Month : Rebecca Rustin,

 

DAS KAPITAL

 

that one time rashid took me to the mall after work
in his car he said buick is the best car even though
his car wasn't a buick it was something else i don't
remember this was after he tried to start drama
about how bad i was at being a cashier for a while
i told cashiers whenever there was a glitch what a
bad cashier i used to be one time at the library
building tim horton's i fixed the cash register
and the manager offered me a job the manager
who'd watched me come and go over the course
of three degrees even part of a PhD but i had to
let that one go a move applauded by my therapist
under a buick sky the parking lot at the mall is so
wide and bucolic when rashid says buick it's 'bweek'

 

 

 

Rebecca Rustin is a Montreal writer and translator with work in Pioneertown, PRISM, where is the river and elsewhere, and a chapbook, Mercy Tax, from Rahila’s Ghost (2019).