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Airea D. Matthews

Airea D. Matthews

Airea D. Matthews is the author of Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets. She is an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College and is working on her second book, under/class.  

When Can We Expect Payment?


as soon as you pay me back
     


             interest on the car that wouldn't start



not even when i slammed its door shut



             fresh from another chase not



even when he slid his whole arm through



             the broken window smashed my head



                       against that lemon not even when i



rained red on the front seat baby bawled



                       in the rear not even



when i begged right there in your showroom



my credit's bad my feet bound



             please lend a chariot



                      anything that moves.

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