I was making a sandwich for the customer with green eyes when Amanda came in and said, "look for the printed word." I had no idea what it meant but I continued making the man's turkey pastrami on rye. She left without buying her usual pumpkin cookie and soy chai latte, extra foam of course. Was this some sort of riddle, about how a raven is like a writing desk?
I looked through the produce hoping to find a scrap of crumpled paper among the peaches. Then to the juice bar, even sifting through the pulp of discarded apples and kale. I asked the cooks in the back if they had seen any odd words around, but they said no. The intercom howled "Thank you for shopping at Jimbooooo'sβ¦Naturally!" when it hit me. I rushed back toward the sandwich bar and inspected the guacamole. And the seed of the avocado sitting next to it read, "Neon fruit supermarkets attract a lonely Whitman."