The World I Choose Is At Shoprite

[RiverNotch]

A young cashier in hijab
rings up cases of kosher wine,
smiles "Happy Holiday"—
"You, too."

"cases of kosher wine" implies that the customer is capable of buying so much drink, ie is a class above that of the cashier, who considering the usual policies of shoprite receives a salary barely above minimum wage -- now here it is implied that the division between religions/nations is respected, which is good, but also the division between classes, which is not necessarily good, considering the growing mobocratic/oligarchic tyranny of the rich, and the growing divide between the rich and the poor, and thus the need for the lower class to recognize their position in and importance to the world. also, shoprite is a particularly western institution -- does the speaker mean to say that this piece can only be found in, worse still can only be achieved by, a western institution? the same institution that destroyed the middle east with its imperialist policies, and forced zionism into certain logical extremes with its general anti-semitism? this piece revels in western, middle class blindness --------- and of course i lol very much at this rather ridiculous interpretation, particularly because i just went through a quick google search to even figure out what shoprite is, and thus probably missed a lot of juicy details. but yeah, the em dash is effective -- i don't really see anything to change here, not unless you consider the above comment seriously.