how often do I have to return to the comparison
of dogs, when my patience and
social formality is tested...
and without these piquant passions
I'd... well I wouldn't even try to
become an oriental monk or a
Bangladeshi yogi (if that's what you're
asking)...
guess it will never be in my heart
to turn my blood blue
and pretend to blush like Vishnu...
then again: maybe there are no monarchs
seated on the stools of cashiers,
at a supermarket?!
perhaps older women should be
taught not to serve your men buying
alcohol, thinking that they are en route
to the men in their life...
whatever the story,
but for god's sake,
just because I've taken my headphones
off and slipped them into the neck
of my t-shirt doesn't mean I'm: suddenly deaf...
ah faaaa'ck the woman's comments
ruined my afternoon moon which
subsequently ruined this classic pasta
bake I was making...
because that sort of commentary
from a supermarket cashier isn't on...
PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE BORING JOBS...
THEY HAVE EASY JOBS
WHICH MAKES THEM BORING...
and I'd love to see a bunch of these
supermarket staff spend one summer
covering the roof of the Scottish Widows
HQ near St. Paul's:
WORK ON A CONSTRUCTION IS...
ARBEIT!
you don't have a chance to
scratch your backside let alone
think about flamingo coloured clouds
to, "pass the time"...
can't exactly expect a job,
devoid of physical exertion,
and somehow wish for an intelectually
budding focus point to counter...
people have "boring" jobs because
they don't have as much physical investment
in it... and not every job, made easy,
is guaranteed intellectual prosperity...
albeit there are some "easy" jibs
that nonetheless require a sense of
the other, id est: responsibility -
exemplum gratis: a crane operative...
roofing is a menial task,
albeit with the meniality of the labour
eased by a physical investment...
all these, menial / "boring" jobs?
exactly, where once it would be equated
to toiling in the field...
no intelectual expansion,
added to the missing loss of physical strain...
hey presto, you have kings and queens,
literal ******* monarchs on supermarket
cashier stools!
MANTRA:
remember to have the cool of
an alsatian, rather than the bark of
dachshund (repeat that x3)...
WHY?!
loose tomatoes, on the vine...
even at the self-checkout the checkout
machines have, a ******* weighing
mashine for the cashier,
by her generous graces: to ******* use!
if this sort of cashier is so
******* expendable, why the hell have
supermarket cashiers in the first place?!
people have a knack,
at making them expendable...
this poem would not have come to life
if the supermarket installed self-checkouts...
because?
******* dinosaur...
I can understand going to the butcher stall
or the fishmonger stall and receiving
a barcode sticker...
fresh fruit and veg. in a supermarket?
does it ******* look like I'm
at Spitalfields?!
sorry, Poles can't own shops, can't work
in shops, will always return to
shopping during the Marshal Law days
paranoid about the Soviet invasion...
fresh tomatoes, every self-checkout
machine has the option of weighing
loose veg...
yet there she is, a twitching
a.i. in waiting recyclable with a question
(prior to the suggestion of my deafness...
no, the sound of cars doesn't fill
me with a techno romance, music thank you,
can't summon a ******* sparrow
even if I waned to):
WHY AREN'T THESE TOMATOES WEIGHED?
mantra: remember to have the patience
of an alsatian...
oh, sorry, could you just put
them to the side?
the barcode road ended...
SELF-CHECKOUT MACHINES
HAVE A LIBRA FUNCTION!
YOU CAN DO MORE THAN JUST SCAN
BARCODES! YOU ARE SUPPOSED
TO WEIH LOOSE VEG!
THE SUPERMARKET HAS HAD A FRESH
DELIVERY! SEASONAL PRODUCE WILL
NOT BE PACKED IN SOME *******
JUST OUTSIDE OF MADRID AND SHIPPED
WHEN LOCAL PRODUCE HAS JUST BEEN
BROUGHT IN, AND IS SOLD LOOSE,
BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN BAUGHT IN BULK,
THE SUPERMARKET HASN'T PAID FOR
BARCODE PACKAGING...
expendeble human being...
and god, I sometimes wish I could
bark like a duchshund whenever
a mosquito-bite's moment of irritation
came like that on every
occasion...
little dogs bark...
I haven't the energy most of the time...
so I have the mantra:
save the barking and go straight
for the bite...
hence the alsatian...
currently there's a "debate"
about: disabled people protesting for
almost 20 days about receiving
an increased living allowance...
and I'm like: you sure a ****** would
have insulted my hearing
and did a job worse than I would
have done using a self check-out?
all ******* smiles if they were
given this "menial" task...
heads full of hot air, smiles all round,
and... on the odd occassion,
a deviation from scanning barcodes...
but I sometimes wish
I could bark like a little dog
on these mosquito-bite type of scenarios,
as trivial as they are...
in a supermarket...
but I can't exactly lunge into
gnarling and biting...
guess I have to pretend to
be the ever loving, patience of an angel
labrador... type of...
dog, walking an invisible
blindman...
hell, the ***** I bought on this
trivial escapade makes the past day
a glitch... and the night:
open to an endless stream of interpretation...
she was right though,
I am not the sort of story
behind alcohol that she probably
knows and has moved past
self-pity...
all out war of tongue...
well, sure...
AVE! MENS FACTUS EST ****...
hell, Latin grammar is like
a semitic text,
right to left...
doesn't matter if the text
is ancient and was also, once upon
written left to right...
the grammar might as well be
semitic...
good that I didn't bark...
ah...
but to have ended the day and escaped
into the night, with this deadweight
making me bloated?
the fact that people
can't keep social manners in comment
sections of articles...
and don't have the capacity
to bash about a pixel blank?
it's as if these people are so docile
and oblivious to situations
where they could have barked
but didn't...
but also: didn't even have
a conflicting argument to not bite...
hence... ha ha...
the comment sections, those of us
aged 30+... are familiar with.
