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Selling A Kidney (poem)

By Tim Bagwell

Forty years after Woodstock,
forty years after combat in Vietnam,
I'm giving serious thought to it-
selling a kidney to a sick millionaire
to fund the rest of my life.

Hell, I have two. Why not?
Interesting: Would I sell an arm?
A leg? A testicle? Probably,
if the price was right.

That was the problem with Vietnam.
I sold myself too cheaply.

-Tim Bagwell