like jeili---

i saw a little girl who reminded me of you
wetstraight hair and backpack bigger than her half
swung her hips and feet the way you do

walking through a city square
childselling, Chicklets in a park

i figured her to be about your age
i darted from a halfcup coffee 'for she flew away

and asked her where her mother was
and gave her twenty dollars for a stick of gum

i should have given fifty