I Went to the Mall Today
and discovered
that we're still
buying things
in person, despite
the virus that
kept us locked in
five years ago,
or the lure of
electronic excess,
or the sense that
(somehow) we
might be using
everything up,
or now the
looming shadows
cast over the
gleaming racks of
fast fashion by
phantom tariffs and
the ghosts of
slave wage
children
