Applying for EBT in California
Sara Cahill Marron
Image by Pawel Szvmanski
lovely and lonely
we who are desperate
who wander nowhere
no arias and no diamonds
no class and no conversation
we are the vagabonds
stealing cheese and figs
from the jacketed and adorned
sipping private champagne and
snubbing our public living
we who cannot come inside
your glass castles high above the avenues
throw rocks that burst into petals
hitting the glass and we
laugh and dance in the street at
the cellist playing in the park for
us who are free from the castle
we without walls and we without
silk pillows and strangling
starched collars we the tearless
laugh because we cannot weep.
Sara Cahill Marron
Sara Cahill Marron is a relocated Queens, New York poet studying law in D.C. She is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books 2018) and her poems have recently appeared in Atlas + Alice, Gravitas, and OUT/CAST, with new work forthcoming in the Newtown Literary Review, and FLARE: The Flagler Review. You can read more of her work at saracahillmarron.com.