Discounted

Magazines show clothes

no one I know can afford.

Four hundred dollars for those boots,

not even on sale day

could I acquire,

when four hundred dollars may

be all that's earned

in two weeks time

at that part- time

job I work.

I'll have to wait ‘til that

boutique goes belly up

and those chic boots

surface in some other place,

consigned to a thrift shop

or a flea market,

where they'll seem a little

less proud somehow.

So what if I must wait!

Ten cents on the dollar

is how we’re living

now.