The New Market Eggs
This holy landscape was bought for a single speckled egg-
And given to you, darling baby- because of your keen green eyes
And the fact of your perfect hands.
The value of this:
Chapel to keep the hilltop lonely.
Shovel in the corner like a broken man.
basket full of Christmas Clementine’s.
And identical clouds going East and west
Moving on murmuring wheels.
Nobody need lie anymore about the cost of things.
The egg was a fair and truthful price, indeed-
Every price was there inside
And outside, every item ever made, ever seen
was possible.
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