by Carly Mack

Created on: April 07, 2009

Joe's Cash N Carry

If it wasn't so close,
I'd go someplace else
but I always opt for economy
and that would be Joe's,
so, what the hell,
I'll suffer his ill personality.

As if that weren't enough
to keep me away.
the picked-over produce, at best
with its shriveled-up skin
on the verge of decay
should be chucked out back with the trash!

Course, the treat is the meat
at the counter in back
with a smell that would permeate stone
in colors not found
in your Crayola pack
at its "special low price", sans the bone.

So for cigarettes, beer
and the local news,
not to mention Big Lil's filbert pie,
my loyalty stays,
since there's nothing to lose.
I'll shop Joe's till the day that I die!

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