Author Archives: Gale Acuff

Repossessed: a Poem by Gale Acuff

I’m new. Here at the department store I’ve
sold myself as a stockboy, part-time, after
school. I don’t have a car so Lamar Croft
drives us in his ‘66 Oldsmobile
442 from school down Sawyer Road
at 110 miles per hour until
we come to Allgood Turnpike. A right turn,
more speed, and then we’re in the parking lot.
He got me the [...]