Oh bright and shining spectacle!
Your ***** deal's done cheap;
With few parts missing, rock bottom bargain bin
Of the Saint Vee Dee ***

Aaron, a bleached buzzcut behind the counter,
rings up shirts and skirts by the bag full, for
old ladies shopping at a discount, trying
to brighten a two-room flat with curtain
printed flowers from 1969; for single
moms with their little ones unattended
breaking vases in the aisleways;
for bins of moldy records jamming
Mitch Miller sing along
against Electric Prunes and Strawberry
Alarm Clock in polyvinyl preserve,
and songs of lovers parted
years before he was born;
for bits of time and scenery lost —
the everyday is what's real.

A living foul breathed commercial museum —
Magic Kingdom jigsaw with pieces gone —
Salvation's soldier has no insurance.
Aaron closes store after six o 'clock,
he goes home and dreams
his teeth are broken.