The Mall
From late 1989 to mid 1991 I worked in shopping malls in Vancouver, Canada. Awful places, retail palaces that seemed to be very popular.
Colossal colossus of colliding creatures crawling
Caged and colourful, clasping, grasping, guzzling and gouging
Hawk-eyed for the bargain or just the gain
Wheelchairs and battery cars, crutches and limps
Young and old and fit and sick
Black and white and brown and yellow all come together
Hundred hues, a seething mass teetering on the brink
A place to go
The place to be
See and be seen
This is shopping
This is sick
January 19 1990
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