RETAIL THERAPY
by Marybeth Niederkorn, Poet Extraordinaire
I do not have
Beetle Bailey books
not the ones you want, anyway
Oh, good! You found
your mom a present.
Too bad about the urine stains.
We do not wrap gifts.
All we have for gift-wrap
Is stickers and used porn.
I am on hour
sixty-five this week.
Do not ask me for a smile.
''Santa Baby'' plays
for the forty-seventh time
I load, I shoot
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