This is so good!
Suppose you found a bargain so incredible
you stood there stunned for a moment
unable to believe that this thing could be
for sale at such a low price: that is what happens
when you are born, and as the years go by
the price goes up and up until, near the end
of your life, it is so high that you lie there
stunned forever.
~ Ron Padgett, “Bargain Hunt” (jacketmagazine.com, April 2005)
Notes:
- Sources: Poem Source – Thank you Whiskey River. Photo: Patty Maher
- Inspiration: “Poetry is an art of beginnings and ends. You want middles, read novels.” – Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (via The Vale of Soulmaking)
The Cheesesellers Wife 
Loved this. A true thought, a good poem.
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Indeed it is!
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