Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Hypocrite” by Kelly Madden, which first appeared in Poetry Pause in March 2020.

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Hypocrite

By Kelly Madden

I can watch

an avocado

shrivel on my counter

as the days go by,

but cannot

part with a toonie

to the weathered,

begging

outstretched hand

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Copyright © Kelly Madden

Published in If I’d Known (2022). First appeared in Poetry Pause on March 20, 2020.

Kelly Madden writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in publications supported by the League of Canadian Poets, CV2, Reckoning, POET, Island Writer’s magazine and various anthologies. Her debut poetry collection, If I’d Known is available now. kellybmadden.com

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