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The one cashier is dozing

head nodding, slack mouth open,

above the cover girl spread out before her on the counter

smiling up

with indiscriminate forgiveness

and compassion for everyone

who isn't her.

Only the edge

is visible of the tightly spooled

white miles

of what is soon

to be the torn off

inch by inch receipts,

and the beam of green light in the black glass

of the self scanner

drifts free in the space that is the sum

of the cost of all the items that tonight

won't cross its path.

Registers of feeling too precise

too intricate to feel

except in the disintegrating

traces of a dream

panopticon of cameras

cutting in timed procession

from aisle to aisle

to aisle on the overhead screens

...

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