7 Dollars

7 dollars is the price you said I would never pay so much for a packet of snacks so I left the store and stood on the sidewalk I used to walk around before the nights get so dark but it was afternoon and the rain washed the world you left the store smiling in that deluge ran funny to take shelter under the marquee I shouldn't have said what I said I should never have offered the umbrella the foolish things a man does we love each other urgently almost nothing we built a restless son a sad little dog you left us after the fever and crying but we are always visiting you the boy runs over the tomb knock down the vases the plastic roses are getting ugly did you know that when he sleeps he looks like you?