Annie Leibowitz Said

Annie Leibowitz said “the best part about having
money is not having to
associate with the general public”

I read that in an old Vanity Fair someone left on the
subway
covered in fingerprinted dirt

Don’t read much, got no time, read the number of
the arriving train,
the numbers on my watch

My grandmother signed her name with an “X”

Photographs mean nothing to me, my brothers sit
dying beside me in a purchased oblivion

Someone’s making money

-- Nikki Tommins