Middle Class [in Just-]

[just mercedes]

Your imagery is spot on, puts me right in the scene - the balloon man seems to take on and personify the ills of society, contorting to sell, sell, sell.

I don't know about the spaces and line breaks - my eyes don't read easily the way you broke up the white space of the page, but the hesitations and pauses are all part of the scene I guess, form and content blended.

Pessimism, from Black Friday to the used Fords, via Existential angst and akathisia (thanks for the new word!).

Appreciate you giving this a look. Tried to make a parody of e.e. Cummings' poem In Just-.

Doh! Sometimes I'm very obtuse. Well done! QED