Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb - Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
If He Could Buy the State of Wyoming

by Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb


The article that listed
the top ten states
in which to retire
placed Wyoming first
because it doesn’t have
a lot of crime, but then
the state doesn’t have
a lot of people;
the source obviously
did not consult
my brother-in-law
who feels there are
already too many folks
in his home state
and announced
in our discussion
of possibly winning
the lottery that if he had
unlimited wealth, he
would buy Wyoming
and ask all those people
he doesn’t like
to leave.


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In addition to Foliate Oak, Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb’s work has appeared in Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal, Lingerpost, The Conium Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, and other journals and online forums, with work forthcoming in SLAB Literary Magazine, Eastern Iowa Review, and Soliloquies. A past Pushcart Prize nominee and a recent Best of the Net nominee, she is co-founder of Native West Press.