Dan Williams

Dirt

Even measured in acres

seeming like valuable real estate, it is in fact only dirt

can be tilled and graded and seeded and fertilized

made to resemble rich turf, a valuable plot

but remains dirt

almost as a glass apple only appears to be

though no skin to peel to reveal sweet flesh

is at least visual while dirt

must be cleaned off of almost everything

revealed in sad archeology

so the insult I hurl; you are dirt