“Like a woman journeying for water”

The Good Life - Tracy K. Smith | Berocca Tablet in Water

The Poem
The Good Life - Tracy K. Smith


When some people talk about money
They speak as if it were a mysterious lover
Who went out to buy milk and never
Came back, and it makes me nostalgic
For the years I lived on coffee and bread,
Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday
Like a woman journeying for water
From a village without a well, then living
One or two nights like everyone else
On roast chicken and red wine.


The Beverage

Berocca Tablet in Water

Berocca Tablets are a bit magical. They dissolve like an Alka-Seltzer and are full of vitamins and caffeine. Didn’t sleep well last night? Have a hangover? Berocca gotcha. And it tastes okay!

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