Unclear on the Concept

Healthy Human
Department sent
me a debit
card with which to
buy any cure
for what ails me.
I had not so
much as an egg
yolk to my name.
Naturally
I brought a flat
of bright yellow
geraniums
to the counter
who politely
informed me that
flowers do not
constitute a
qualified sale.
Clearly I am
unclear on the
concept of what
makes a human
being healthy.

About The Author...

Phillip Larrea was born and raised in Sacramento, CA., lived in N.Y.C. and Northern New Jersey most of his adult life, but has since moved back to Sacramento "where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me." (Paul Simon - "The Boxer"). He studied poetry with Thom Gunn and Karl Shapiro at the University of California at Davis during the late seventies, and then all but abandoned writing until 2011. Since 2011, Phillip has had poetry published in over sixty journals and anthologies, is the author of Our Patch (Writing Knights Press), We the People (Cold River Press) and hundreds of non-fiction essays about the economic conditions of the average working household.