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The Bargain

In the bargain basement

Maze of superfluous skins

The entrails of Hudson's Bay Company

I followed you, scowling

While you - oblivious

Rummaged through ridiculously

Reduced coats and toques

From the year before,

With one pant leg caught

In your sock. Like the lovable

Hobo - a clown with

Wide hair statically charged

And painted cheeks unblended

You hunted for the best

Deals for me, though I did not care

For your tastes then. I could never

Understand why you took your milk

Powdered, your coffee black, why you

Listened to the CBC before bed,

And dragged me around the WAG

For the Group of Seven, Inuit carvings,

And local postmodern art. Thawing

On the slushy Jefferson Avenue bus, I hoped

I would ...

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