Exactly How Much I Care About Your Suffering

 By Elizabeth Loeung

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Your pain is worth

Fifty-seven cents in

Monopoly money, an apple

Slice, twenty-three gray

Carpet fibers, my favorite

Tissue, a gram of

Asepsis, two pieces of kitty kibble

A cliché insult, six scratched

CDs of the Muppet movie

A stale burnt caramel, half a

Dust bunny’s ear, one

Ounce of llama

Spit, and the three

Minutes forty-two

Seconds it took to write this poem.

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Elizabeth (Lizzy) Loeung is an English Major at Corban University. She's originally from Gresham, Oregon where she lives with her many chickens, cats, and singular dog. She enjoys all forms of art, most forms of reading, and some forms of exercise. You should also be aware that if you ever meet her, she will likely not introduce herself and will instead jump into conversation about opossums.