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Grocery Store

I’m taking too long in here. 
This cart I am trying to steer. 
Is squealing around corners constantly. 
There’s nothing except throwing groceries in endlessly. 
The wet floor sign is laughing too hard. 
I still need to buy a thank you card. 
But words don’t exist in the confines of the store. 
Just lines and scribbles galore!
Ribbons streaming from nowhere. 
Like sadness from a tearful pear. 
I could leave this store at any time.
But not without an angry lime. 
Not without doing something odd. 
Like catching bags of chips with a fishing rod. 
Eating a pastry from a display. 
Jumping around to avoid the fray. 
I’m taking too long in this place. 
Where I can feel the freezer section’s embrace. 
The cold is not the only thing in me. 
I wish everything was free. 
Free like a smiling flower in the floral department. 
Which is beautiful despite dismemberment. 
I wish I was free too…
In this store with too many tears undue.

Copyright © Angelica Tao

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