line and spot

lines are everywhere, guidelines, borderlines, deadlines.
couldn’t do without them really or we’d all be going in circles
or going off the edge.
when everything lines up, we can relax, feel safe.
I went to an auction—i LOVE auctions. the rowdy sound of it, the rhythm of it,
the fact that you go there to buy an armoire and come home
with two chickens and a butter churn!
there were 160 beautiful thoroughbred horses up for auction.
one by one by one by one they came, they went. then came #152.
that’s her, that’s her.
we had a maximum bid agreed on like sensible people, a line not to cross.
I shouted $500 more and that was it. SOLD.
Her name is Spot.