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"13 Questions for
the Next Economy."

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Only questions.

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No answers.

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On the side of the road, white
cardboard in the shape of a man,

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illegible script.

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A signpost with scrawl, Will
pay cash for diabetes strips.

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A system under the system
with its black box.

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Disability hearing?,
a billboard reads.

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Trouble with Social Security?

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Where does the riot begin?

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Spark of dry grass,
Russian thistle in flames,

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or butterflies bobbing as
if pulled by unseen strings

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through the alleyway.

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My mother's riot
would have been peace.

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A bicycle wheel chained
to a concrete planter.

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What metaphor can I use to
describe the children sleeping

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in cages in detention centers?

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Birds pushed
fenceward by a breeze?

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A train of brake
lights extending?

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Mesquite pods mill under our
feet on a rainless sidewalk.

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What revolution will
my daughter feed?

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A break-the-state, twig snap--

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twig-quick snap or a long
divining as if for water?

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A cotton silence?

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A death?

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Who will read this in the next
economy, the one that comes

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after the one that kills us?

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What lessons will we take
from the side of the road?

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A wooden crucifix, a
white bicycle, a pinwheel,

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a poem waiting to be redacted,
What would you cross out?

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