The Skirt of Society

I am a cashier at PriceSmart Foods, and I wrote this while monitoring customers on self-serve tills.

There is a story in every step, In each smile of every individual face. Scars are the marks of memories, good and bad, each a lesson to look back on. Standing monotonously at an unmoving and deserted work station leaves time to think, to reflect. This is where you learn to get something from everything. Time passes by with each small trickle of a second. Stand here and wonder what else is out there, what is in store for me aside from this, where the many waves of decision might take me...Stare out at the binfuls of glucose-pervaded candy bars and racks of chips, swollen with grease. Necessity morphed to boredom in its modern technological ease. The fast-lane has extracted raw beauty and synthesized it, causing fatal impurity and amaranthine insecurities. All things only physically unique once, mass-produced, a sell-out of consumer's gluttony. Little mouths scream out for the factory-made objects in their plastic packaging and inked in titling. What is this place in all its becoming? Raw, natural, beautiful craziness too difficult to come by without being labelled strange by either ignorance or envy.

One day, perhaps people will hear my words with their souls rather than ignorant and frightened ears choosing only to listen to surface sounds.

Reviews

[Zoe Jay]

Your style is extremely unusual. The prose-like structure is dense and unrelenting, yet the rhythm and beauty of the poetry is unmistakable. This is narrative in style, but really, it is a purely descriptive, contemplative poem. It captures the moment we look around us, and fall out of step with the world, and lose the fluffy cloud of pleasantry and platitude and denial, and see what is truly there. That moment, that feeling, is well captured here, and anyone who has experienced this will understand your protagonist's point of view. Piercingly analyzed, and very well expressed, with thoughtful and sharply accurate descriptives, this is a really good. I particularly like "necessity morphed to boredom in its modern technological ease", and "raw, natural, beautiful craziness is too difficult to come by without being labelled strange by either ignorance or envy". These are very concise, but very vivid and rich, and searingly realistic, ways of expressing and encapsulating your point. Very well written!

[dukovan]

and referring to your caption, i work at kohls, and I know exactly what you mean.

[dukovan]

Once the desicion is made to look beyond what is being dangled in front of your face. Once you choose to push for new ground, you will then begin to feel the vibrations of life, swelling and expanding into all this space and mass, then you see what this all really is, infinate, everchanging wonder.

[GrandDystopia]

Really, liked this, great message.
Nice job

[KAREN]

Yes, everyone has a story to tell. I hear your story loud and clear and it was good!