Newspoem
2 January 2002
Anne Bargar
Anne Bargar

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What I Saw at the Grocery Store

Puffy hair and tight jeans
Always in 80's style
This is your service economy job
Rat tails affixed to balding heads
In-
Ordinate beer guts
Two-month-olds feel more patriotic in an
In-
Cognito sort of way

Did you notice
In the frozen foods
All those breaded fish bits
Pepperoni pizza bites and other
Erroneously labeled "foods?"
Right under your nose
Something ugly slips by

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