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Yesterday my neighbor sold her four children

She sat them down on their wooden front porch 

Too hot for their ashy toes and their laced socks

Milton left with his frosty bottle of orange

Nehi pop and Lana was sold for two dollars

For bingo money and her dolly cost another

Inside their house my neighbour turned

The empty dinner plates upside down 

And covered the baby’s crib with a wet sheet

Rae accepted a penny when they took

Her baby sister away and she left three dimes

On the porch stairs from a man who owned a barn

In the evening my neighbor took down the sale sign

And waited for her husband to return home

He drove an empty coal truck down the road

With string around his neck and another

Two lost bingo bucks after he failed to sell

himself.

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Yoon Park is a dynamic high school student enrolled at an international school in Seoul, South Korea. She channels her creative energy into writing and visual art and finds joy in expressing herself through these mediums. Additionally, she has a passion for music and spends her spare time playing the piano or the guitar. Her dedication to her craft has earned her recognition and admission into the prestigious Sewanee Young Writers Conference.