Ms. Moon’s Five-Minute Grocer’s Break

And a reference to the Patty Hearst case

Photo by Brett Sayles: https://www.pexels.com/photo/17243096/

Aesthetica Moon inhales her swisher sweetly inhales more smoke

than her lungs can bear

Gray smoke swirls
mists against the border of a light blue Nissan

Aesthetica casts away the hazy memories
merchandise — denying barcodes as she denies her son’s bald spot

Ms. Moon throws

lightning spears at hubcaps
rips Tag #6 to shreds

Tears the “Buckle Up!” sticker from her truck
thrusts it into the storage rooms of Homeland
Safeway
IGA

where cockroaches (otherwise known as managers)
order their troops to pour ice-cold milk
sour white ripples down sapphire aisles

Tommy rolls his hotwheels
down the spiraling river

That’ll be $6.57
cars, toy dollars, toupees, toy pesos

Hot checks bounce
diving into hailstorms of oblivion