Title: Shopping

Author: Brent Kininmont

In: Sport 41: 2013

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, 2014, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Sport 41: 2013

Brent Kininmont — Shopping

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Brent Kininmont

Shopping

More puzzling than
a hearse parked outside

the supermarket,
is this keypad on

the driver’s door.
You can picture how

it got here:
the pallbearers losing

their grip, the driver
padding his body—

The key?! The key?!—
like somebody checking

he is still there.
For now, nobody is

behind the wheel.
And in the deeply

tinted window
at the business end

of the carriage,
you can’t see beyond

page 235 your own reflection
before you disappear

through yawning
glass doors.

On the other side
you spot somebody

in a black necktie.
He is holding a basket.

Behind him
the frozen meats.