many, many memberships have I,
to great institutions, large and small,
though I oft have an extra shopping
bag secreted in my coat pockets just
in case….I spot a tiny sized bargain
but Costco has ruled me ineligible,
unable / unwilling to let me enter,
for I do not possess their
le carte d’identite necessaire…
oh they would let me in, if I
ante’d up the fee, but,
between you and me,
but what’s the point?
living in a pint sized
a/k/a my studio nyc apartment,
there is no space large
enough to accommodate
their supersized inventory
of 24 paper towel rolls,
one doubled sized cereal boxes
that that won’t fit my cabinet,
or take up an entire shelf,
and where gallons and megs~packs
are seldom heard, crying out
“I’m lonely, buy me, buy me!,
I long for lots of company!”
B U T
I voyage on the Amazon
where they accommodate
we little people in little houses,
like an old woman who lived^
in a shoe, so many poems in
my head, there just isn’t room
for a whole lot of
much else
Dec 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM UTC
many, many memberships have I,
to great institutions, large and small,
though I oft have an extra shopping
bag secreted in my coat pockets just
in case….I spot a tiny sized bargain
but Costco has ruled me ineligible,
unable / unwilling to let me enter,
for I do not possess their
le carte d’identite necessaire…
oh they would let me in, if I
ante’d up the fee, but,
between you and me,
but what’s the point?
living in a pint sized
a/k/a my studio nyc apartment,
there is no space large
enough to accommodate
their supersized inventory
of 24 paper towel rolls,
one doubled sized cereal boxes
that that won’t fit my cabinet,
or take up an entire shelf,
and where gallons and megs~packs
are seldom heard, crying out
“I’m lonely, buy me, buy me!,
I long for lots of company!”
B U T
I voyage on the Amazon
where they accommodate
we little people in little houses,
like an old woman who lived^
in a shoe, so many poems in
my head, there just isn’t room
for a whole lot of
much else
