Market Conversations

Oh yes, they lived in Glasshouse she said stridently,
years ago, twenty, thirty – who really knows,
she didn’t actually say; but she claimed to understand
avocados. We joked with her because we know
the couple who bought their old place, and her husband
had a smile on his weathered face from her meanderings,
nodded to me, whispered she’s a bit deaf. When she saw
we were talking she joined the conversation less about two
bars and three beats into the tune. She said, Evan, are you
going to pay the man? Sure thing he said, grinning at me,
but have you actually bought anything?
© I.D. Carswell