Blood Money
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 10 No. 1, "Who Owns Appalachia?" Find more from that issue here.
This blood rolling down my arm
is from the wounds of a dollar bill
that cut my fingers as I touched it,
The blood runs down my elbows
and drips off into the sand.
Mr. Pittston is kicking dirt over it,
swearing
there are no names written
on that dollar bill.
All this is the result
of thinking too much
about a Law Suit
proving me of
“The Survival Syndrome”:
I get money
but none of the dead are resurrected.
— Gail V. Amburgey
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Gail V. Amburgey
Gail V. Amburgey, born and raised on Buffalo Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, was a member of the Soup Bean Poets, an Appalachian collective. She lives in Delbarton, West Virginia. (1982)