Scott Simpson · Poetry

Five Dollars

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Five Dollars

Buy yourself a latte—

you smile, maybe.

Buy it for the next car

in the drive-thru line—

and you glow.

Some things can’t

be wrapped.

Some gifts come only

when you give them away.