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In a San Antonio Supermarket

Matthew Guzman

I wander around the fruit displays dodging the cranky old ladies,
the ones that knock on every piece of fruit, and park their carts haphazardly horizontal!
Didn’t someone write a poem about wandering lonely in a supermarket?
Maybe not literally ambulating, but at least metaphorically?
Well, I am literally here because I need bananas and soy milk.
Leave it to the poets who sing mantras or chant in electric day-glow
to summon rich comparison and illusion, the greatest minds of another generation.
I’m just hungry for calcium and potassium, nanners and soybean juice.

The check-out girl smiles and asks if I’d like a toothbrush to go with my purchase today.
Such a strange tag-on sale, but I’m charmed by her smile and innocence
so I get a toothbrush, and with thirty-two cents jingling in my right pocket,
I bag my groceries and begin to leave.
The girl says – “Wait Sir! Walt will help you out to the car.”
“Naw, it’s okay I got it, save him for a bearded poet who howls at the moon,” I say.
Then I get into my car and float down the Lethe, toothbrush in hand.

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