The Telnyuk Sisters - Provisions by Margaret Atwood [DEMO]

Provisions

What should we have taken
with us? We never could decide
on that; or what to wear,
or at what time of
year we should make the journey

So here we are in thin
raincoats and rubber boots

On the disastrous ice, the wind rising

Nothing in our pockets

But a pencil stub, two oranges
Four Toronto streetcar tickets

and an elastic band holding a bundle
of small white filing cards
printed with important facts.

"Provisions" Music ©2013, The Telnyuk Sisters; Lyrics are the Poem "Provisions" ©1968 Margaret Atwood. First appeared in THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY as published by Oxford University Press, Used by permission of the Author. All rights reserved.