The Patient Donkey
by L. E. Quillen
We've been together a year
and a day.
You call me names,
but never my given name.
I wonder.
Am I real to you?
You hold me with threats
and promises,
a stick and a carrot.
And I guess
I'm a jackass
for letting you.
.
Copyright © 1994. Lida E. Quillen. Published Spring 1994 issue of Sophomore Jinx. All rights reserved.
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