She pawned
two rings and a bracelet
from your dead mother's estate
to buy herself
three half-pints of vodka,
a bag of fresh cherries,
a six-pack of colorful sodas,
two diet Red Bulls,
two Starbucks coffees,
and a handful of Kahlua shots.
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