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October 2022

Walmart On A Wednesday Morning

Les Marcott | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com

Les Marcott

It's Walmart on a Wednesday morning

I stopped in for some decadent oatmeal snacks

They used to be 99¢, now they're $1.47

That's the price you pay for inflation, Jack

 

I'm one of those smelly Walmart shoppers

That Peter Strzok once denounced

But I know where the deodorant aisle is sir

I've been there more often than I can count

 

That canary in the coal mine has long since died

But my Walmart like a fortress steadfastly endures

It's where I buy my vegetables and meat

And my super-duper organic garden manure

 

There are madmen marching across the parking lot

They are partly fact, partly fiction…marching contradictions

Chanting "THIS IS THE REAL AMERICA PEOPLE; THIS IS THE REAL AMERICA"

But whatever their faults, they have a keen grasp of the human condition

 

The flag is flying at half-mast, it's a common sight

There's a battle raging on aisle number ten

The haves and the have nots haven't forgot

That you shouldn't get caught on that damn deodorant aisle again

 

It's Walmart on a Wednesday morning

 

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Les Marcott | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com

Les Marcott is a songwriter, musician, performer and a Senior Writer and columnist for Scene4.  For more of his commentary and articles, check the Archives.

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