Gilded Dirt #2: Supermarket Verse

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On the aesthetics of shelf stacking She is petite, slight, hardly reaching the third shelf her method precise, even, a river of bottles laying claim to space.

I might have suggested she put lemon beside Lucozade, for symmetry balancing rainbow lines of light.

But I’m in a hurry, muzak making my mind long for quite spaces.

Ah, still water is on the top shelf at the back - where even by long arms cannot stretch, my back protests.


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