C. D. Wright





           Count your notches

           Count your condoms before you go out

                Saturday night
                Satisfaction guaranteed

           Count your folding money

           Count the times you said you wouldn’t go back

           Count your debts

           Count the roaches when the light comes on

           Count your kids after the housefire

           Count your cousins on your mother’s side

           Count your worrisome moles

           Count your dead: