Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TRADER, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: I traded a girl
Last Line: Now lie in it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Desire; Fruit; Love


I traded a girl
two apples for an orange.
I hate citrus
but she was beautiful.
As lovers we were rotten --
this was before the sexual revolution --
and we only necked and pawed,
"Don't write below the lines!"
But now she's traded
that child's red mitten
I only touched
for a stovepipe hat,
four children,
and a milkman husband.
Soon I learn there will be no milkmen
and she'll want to trade again.
Stop. I won't take a giant Marianas
trench for two red apples.
You've had your orange
now lie in it.





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