Tuesday, February 1, 2022

they got nothing for us

the trouble with Nordstrom
Rack
is that it's ninety-nine per cent
women's clothes.
a few pants
and shirts are there for us.
a few mismatched shoes,
size 13 lying around,
but not much else.
socks and underwear,
Italian jackets that a gigolo
in Rome might wear.
the men's section is tucked
away in the far corner.
the Siberian part of the store.
you see the men, wandering,
weary, picking up
things they won't buy,
looking at their watches,
then out into the wide
open spaces of the women's
section, for their
girlfriends or wives.

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