Grocery Store Blues

Plastic Surgery Before and After

          For $2.50 you can buy a real cut of meat.  The hardest part is staying awake for the whole show.  A mosquito landed backwards on my brother’s shoulder, ladies waited in turquoise—wanted to show me something: a spider spidering up a butcher’s window.  The beef was getting lightheaded and said to the butcher, “Hey, take a break on me. I’m seeing spots.”
          “So go on,”the butcher said and pointed toward the door.

          The beef threw his white arm around the butcher's neck, legs dangling like a puppet “I can’t," he said. So the butcher lowered him back onto the rack. "Finish it,”he said, leaning back with a sigh.
          Then the butcher watched the butcher. I saw a knife swing through a mirror.