Sport 41: 2013
Brent Kininmont — Shopping
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
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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.