I Sold Dorothy Livesay a Bed

Once in a while, one does something out of the ordinary, meets someone famous, without realizing it. I worked with Dorothy Livesay’s daughter for a short time many years ago, and this is what happened …A

I SOLD DOROTHY LIVESAY A BED

they say that Dorothy
slept lightly those last years
warm on her posturepedic                      

I sold her that bed –
an extra in the basement
not likely to have a guest
between the sheets
when I was a student
eating rice and sardines
for breakfast

she bounced
on the springs
high into a line of laughter
sat down and dreamed a cheque
into my hungry hands

she never said
she was a poet

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first published in The Copperfield Review

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