1987 ford mustang with a FOR SALE sign in the rear window

and the skinny girl who
gets out of it


the price of a pack of cigarettes
(or the name of a baby
who will never know her father


who will be dead before
his fifth birthday)
and what she does is smile and ask
if you're interested


says she needs twenty bucks


says the kid probably
won't even wake up


and the only thing you
know how to be is human