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Description
Second Shift @ Ghetto Groceries

An old woman in a fur coat
Babbles about the inheritance she
Received as she gives me money to
Pay on the bad checks she wrote on
Her closed bank account.

A scruffy man with crooked glasses
Pulls out a one hundred dollar bill which
He hands me to pay for his
Basket full of Ramen noodles.

A middle-aged woman with a mesh face
Herds around three children wearing
Worn and holey shoes during the
Coldest winter in five years
Uses her government-issued cash assistance
To buy the cigarettes that
Will render those same children orphans
In three years, four months and two days.

On the phone,
An old man with a scratchy voice
That sounds like he smoked Camel
Non-filters for 60 years
Screams at me between breaths
About the nine cents he was overcharged
On a pack of hot dogs.

Deposits done, bank run, punch clock.
Back tomorrow.

Description
Second Shift @ Ghetto Groceries

An old woman in a fur coat
Babbles about the inheritance she
Received as she gives me money to
Pay on the bad checks she wrote on
Her closed bank account.

A scruffy man with crooked glasses
Pulls out a one hundred dollar bill which
He hands me to pay for his
Basket full of Ramen noodles.

A middle-aged woman with a mesh face
Herds around three children wearing
Worn and holey shoes during the
Coldest winter in five years
Uses her government-issued cash assistance
To buy the cigarettes that
Will render those same children orphans
In three years, four months and two days.

On the phone,
An old man with a scratchy voice
That sounds like he smoked Camel
Non-filters for 60 years
Screams at me between breaths
About the nine cents he was overcharged
On a pack of hot dogs.

Deposits done, bank run, punch clock.
Back tomorrow.