On Hauling Two Big Bags of Kitchen Stuff Home from Bed, Bath & Beyond

Strange to care
so much
about these

thick intricacies –
mercantile details –
undergo

this heavy
lugging – foggily
appraising quality

and wondering
if spending
what you spent

was wise
and why it isn’t
possible to get

away from
rules like gravity
and social

expectations –
if, that is, there
weren’t some

alternative
to this material
existence and its

patent city-wide
resistance to
the idea simply

breathing is enough.
Strange
to care so much

about your stuff.
But you suppose
it’s like a potter

caring about clay.
There isn’t any
other way.


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