or do better

or do better

before you’re sold a plowhorse with rotted teeth
sell a year’s income for a master
purchase the appearance of wealthy

sell the money to
a lord at the door of his stable

offer to purchase a spanish breed
one that’s carried a man weighted
with metal into tournaments into wars

he’ll offer to purchase
the added price of safe passage
to sell you a courser saddled and bridled
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