Thursday, April 28, 2016

mmdlxix

Tune In Tomorrow For My Demise

I’m startled.
Yesterday
I checked out

the new mall
down the hill
which houses

a gourmet grocer
in its basement.
While I’m very

excited about
this fact, it
nevertheless

depressses
me that the
grocer remains

hungry—
almost to
the edge of

starvation—
in that lonely
shopping

center base-
ment for
two

very long
decades.