she was a beautiful child,
but also born a thief
The neighbor's cat
placed into a box and
left on the front porch of a Widow several blocks away
Two potted plants,
taken out of yard of her least favorite teacher,
wheeled in a wagon down to a local nursing home
The art project her mother built,
the one her stupid brother got credit for
she hid in a garbage bag and took to the library
She did not know the word benevolence
but she knew what guilt was, and had none