2001/checker

The checker at the health
food store is reading
Fountainhead.
A college requirement,
I don’t know why.
He prefers Steinbeck
instead,
and I agree
that’s more to my
liking.
Meanwhile, I bag
my food in my much
used sacks,
two bottles of milk this
week,
bulging bags
of mung, and oatmeal
and rice,
while we talk about
capitalism,
and saving
the trees.

1/26/01