[white paper #28]

could get a credit card loan car

come and go without a never had

to think about a school work job

to open doors to buy a rent a nice

place yard park beside a walk

in any store without a never had

to dress to buy a dress shoes under-

wear to understate or –play myself

to make myself heard to get across

a street a never mind point I never

had to earn the right to climb 

my own if I should lose my key or

all I own my open door world was all

before me where to choose to and I

Credit

Copyright © 2011 by Martha Collins. Used with permission of the author.