John McKernan

I Kept Learning New Voodoo

At all the grocery stores
Where I worked

With those bizarre names
Piggly-Wiggly    Hinky Dinky    A & P    Safeway
Thriftway    Quickway    Rightway

But no one can bring back that late
Afternoon and the theology of twilight
That girl from North Omaha brought
To Aisle B    Lips tasting of grape     Mint
Green those eyes    Her name    Angelica

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