by Alan Catlin
In the News:
Lady pepper sprays
fellow shoppers to gain
better access to limited-
time-only sale items.
Temporary employee/store
guard, trampled by shoppers
at Walmart opening.
Thousands wait in line
for midnight opening
of Circuit City mallstore
for while-supplies-
last-sale.
Estimated 150 million
shoppers took to streets
on Black Friday, nearly
half of US population.
Analysts describe the phenomena
as a “National Obsession.
The future not some new 9-11
World Trade Center burning event
but President Bush’s post
apocalyptic vision of defeating
the enemy at the malls with our
credit cards, our cash, our consumption;
what we buy defines us. All the surveys
tell us so.
Alan Catlin has published numerous chapbooks and full-length books of poetry and prose, the latest of which, from Pygmy Forest Press, is Deep Water Horizon including several poems originally published in The New Verse News.
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