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ScarCity


by Jerry Ratch


I flipped a large cardboard coin

On one side it said

Abundance

But on the other side it said

Scarcity

 

I went to the store

And began packing everything I could get

Into my shopping cart

But the things that started spilling over

Onto the floor

I began stuffing into

My pockets

 

As much as I could get in there

Because Lo!

There was immense

Scar-

City

In the world

 

And apparently

No one knew it

But I

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