ta lin!

i can see how people get into cruising down central
on a sunny freaking day not too hot windows wide

just don't do what i dd
and spend all your vacation money

at ta lin

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at least now i have food to last
through the armageddon

weird brown german cheese
chili and garlic sauce
an unboned snapper cuz the trout was just too funky
interestingly tasteless crackers
various teas, glutenous rice things, fried banana cake
a can of dulce flan

a hunk of organic chili cheddar
to support the locals who had the wisdom to get it sold there

ginseng shooters, organic dececco spaghetti (who knew?), too much chocolate, spicy german mustard tube, other cheeses i forget like the beer one, more crackers,
glutinous rice on a popsicle stick wrapped in nori seaweed,
mai's tapioca coconut pastry slab,
8 avocados for $3.50

AND A HOST OF OTHER STUFF ALL OF WHICH I JUST CREATED A WHOLE NEW CORNER OF THE KITCHEN FOR

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i'm sure impulsiveness gets to be a habit
when one refuses to follow through more methodically
in attending to one's needs

that's why i try to take vacations

but then who wants to spend a hard earned grand
to still be just somewhere else within the empire

might as well just go shopping

at the international market
where lovely asian college girls shop
an honest fishmonger does the right thing

and a bolivian cashier engages me in a nice chat

while my tommy chong cartload of oddities
rolls cartoonlike down the conveyor

and sails into seven substantial plastic bags
destined for home