“Current Issue,” by Gale Acuff

All the good comic books have been picked through
here at the Dunaway Rex-All Drug Store
at the Cobb County Shopping Center, so
I’m not sure what to do. We get out only
once a week, every Friday,
Father and Mother and I, for supper.
After dessert, Father gives me my due
–my allowance, twenty-five cents. I earned
it, I guess, by making [...]