Die Mart

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Under the weird vacillating
peach light of false dawn,
I’m driving towards home,
on a street called “Brodie”.
Perhaps named after the farmer
whose land was plowed under
with asphalt and concrete.
I pass the eponymous “Brodie Mart”,
it’s name in neon’s red glow,
except for the B-R-O
which has somehow burnt out,
so that now it reads “DIE MART”.
I wonder if it is a rebellion against
the American capitalistic system,
or whether the owners simply
have failed in their commercial endeavor
to take advantage of “the system”,
and thus are unable to fix the sign.
I wonder whether fixing the sign
would help or hurt business?
Considering the populaces current
fascination with the macabre
people might find it attractive.
Although it is also in the middle
of the so called “Bible Belt”
so there would be those who
would at the least see it as a sin,
or worse, it houses a dark and evil
Satanic cult there within
it’s concrete block walls.
Let the witch-hunt now begin!
Regardless, I know for a fact,
it has given at least one person a chuckle.


–Erthona

Perhaps it was a German market?