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That Strapless Bra in Heaven (Kelsay Books) is Sarah Sarai's third book and second full-length poetry collection. Click on the link to order. $14! 

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Poems in Strapless were first published in Prelude, Boston Review, Posit, Ethel, Barrow Street, Zocalo Public Square, Oddball, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea, Quiddity, Isacoustic, SWWiM, and many other fine journals.

My #poem in #Quiddity IN TRAGEDY LET THERE BE THE ECONOMY #SarahSarai #Leviticus @farstargirl

Marc Chagall
 Jeremiah's Lamentations
Original Lithograph, 1956

I continue to be astonished to have found a remarkably contemporary quotation in Lamentations, of all books. I was prepared for wisdom but not for such specific-to-my-times wisdom.

We have drunk our water for money; 
our wood cometh to us for a price.

Jewish Publication Society tr., Tanakh, 1917. 

When I chanced on the contemporary in the ancient and sprang into a poem. And my poem, “In Tragedy Let There Be the Economy,” sprang into Issue 12.1 of Quiddity, which may no longer be in print (as of 1.6.22).

Translations of that verse vary. The above is from the 

Think: Vitamin Water. Think Nestle and their lethal baby formula. Think: Monetizing the planet. Think: We never learn.