#MeToo: Carrie Etter

Carrie Etter

 

 

 

The Receipts

 

oh and again with the receipts     marjoram mango cauliflower     totted up
with prices, because everything, everything, costs     but I prefer not to
calculate #metoo in financial terms     and the receipts suggest recipes—
surely there’s a curry here?     one by one each taste     each sensory memory
the office accountant’s hands on my     I first tasted curry in Los Angeles
discovered bliss in coconut milk     I was so poor I recorded each expense
somebody else must have     who bought me the Thai curry    I was down
to 32 cents one dinnertime     bought two cobs of corn     the poverty
of youth, of beginnings    reckoning not yet even     a word in my head