Overheard at Costco

I know this is
Pandering
but,

Appalachia has been
peeing on the floor
every single day
for a week.

Who the fuck
gonna put up
with that?

So I’m
shoeless,
sobbing in
an alley and

I says
to myself,
I says

What
does it mean
to feel
elemental?

No more monkeys
jumping on the bed.
Uhhh mom what?

I’ll tell you
what,
tomato soup
cures every ill.

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Morgan Russell is a rhetorician and poet, and her work may be found in a number of places, such as Rabid Oak Issue 12 and others. She is the Creative Writing Editor for Marías at Sampaguitas. When she’s not reading or writing, she can be found mainlining coffee, babysitting, or working her cubicle job in Corporate America.