maybe you
know what
this is about
maybe you
can smell
my meaning
maybe you
can hear
the accordion
of this
beautiful
decay
maybe you
know how
it is to have
love rise
and fall, not
like the tide
but more like
the phases
of the moon
maybe you
know what
it is, to
have no
eye for the
shape
of the
clouds
to have no
need for
the things
that money
just can’t buy
David LaBounty has held jobs as a miner, a mechanic, a reporter and as a salesman. His writing has appeared or will soon appear in several journals including Rattle, Night Train, the New Plains Review, SmokeLong, the Los Angeles Review and others. He is the author of the novel Affluenza, a story of debt, consumerism, pyromania and sexual addiction told through the financial rise and fall of an insurance executive who lives beyond his means.