Monday, January 3, 2011

Shampoo in Supermarket (29 Dec 2010, 4.56pm)



Tearing as resistance
Her tears as

resistance against one departure.

Silent
it drops without echo,
unlike a pile of books in the library.

Silent
it drips, just one arm,
unlike those suicidal commodities
found along supermarket shelves

wanting to attract our attention
for only a brief moment
with buffered carton
or muffled cardboard bangs
it was heard
before we noticed them on the floor.

Yet we always prefer to deduced otherwise,
some other reasons

rather callousness
rather carelessness
rather that they were previously stacked precariously
close to the edge of the cold metal horizon

than logical suicide.

The shelves that reminded one
of cooler temperature
of colder blood.

I have told you before,

‘only when the shampoo irritates… only tears in one eye at most.’

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