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| Late Night Shopping | |
| By Keller | ||||||||||
| 10 September 2007 | ||||||||||
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This is the next piece in the Moving Back Home collection. I hope you like it. Is the title quite right? And the end line needs changing I feel, but I'm kinda stuck right now. Would love some feedback! Thanks
The throng of Christmas shoppers
are ordering speciality cheeses
and sipping the free mulled wine,
pointing out pastries and quiches to be
wrapped.
The tinselled staff up and down
ladders
reaching for jars of shelled
pistachios
weighing out quarters of dried
apricots
listing the ingredients of cakes.
I chew on a bread stick, bored
moving out the way of a buggy
as more red faces force their way in.
You haven't seen her in a while
and suddenly I'm four again;
holding your hand while you chat and chat and
chat
and I hear you:
Carefully detailing the past few months of
lives
births, engagements and achievements,
amongst the raisins and biscuits.
You proudly document each story.
But you forget me;
I must have done nothing
worthy of Motherly gossip.
Do you know that I try to every day?
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