Monday, August 29, 2022

15,548. MEDICINE BALL PENNSYLVANIA

MEDICINE BALL PENNSYLVANIA
Mentholated Vapor-Rub, salves and
potions everywhere; no one knows the 
aisles or the lanes. These stores say
'Pharmacy' but maybe they mean
'Farm.' I took three pills with that
Choco-Floater you bought me at the
counter  -  now my head is spinning
and I'm seeing double again.
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Down aisle 471, where the lady
pointed  -  past the bicycles and
hunting equipment and knives and 
guns, I could barely see past the
mounds of paper products: tissues
and toilet and oil-rags and mops.
Kids were playing in the school
supply displays, cracking open the
markers and leaving new squiggly
marks. Anyone for a used Pen-Tel?

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