Friday, April 27, 2007

People like me are a nuisance

...in grocery stores. I rarely go shopping, and whenever I do step into a grocery store I'm immediately drawn to the displays, taking note of other shoppers and how they interact with the products. I get in the way of carts. I run into the twisters of twist ties. I run into bags of buns. Anyhow, on the way home today we stopped at the Safeway in Prince Albert to pick up some road food. Lo and behold, when I walked in I saw the word poetry in lights on my right. Poetry! And poetry in bloom, no less! I wasn't prepared for that. Nor was the staff of the poetry in bloom department prepared for me. "Why is this called poetry in bloom," I asked. The staff looked at me and said "I don't know." "Is there any poetry here?" I asked. No, she replied. "No one has ever asked me that before." So I walked around the poetry in bloom department, looking for poetry. I found no shortage of blooms. Roses. Tulips. Potted mums. How-to plant books. You name it. I even found the word bloom on a pot, but no poetry. Mind you, I neglected to check the backside of the pot. Maybe the poetry is there.

9 comments:

GM said...

It's actually just a typo of "pottery". Happens to me all the time.

Ariel Gordon said...

So you're saying that whenever you write a poem you really meant to throw a pot?

Ariel Gordon said...

(Yay! You're home!)

Brenda Schmidt said...

Ha! Well it seems your new pottery collection was properly fired, G...

A, thanks for yaying! I was just looking at the chocolate butterflies over on your blog. Num!

Zachariah Wells said...

Maybe it had something to do with Harold Bloom. Like, get off the pot, Harold. Or something.

Brenda Schmidt said...

Ha! That's terrible! :)

Anonymous said...

can I please move to Sask.??? so much great poetry stuff going on... give me the heads up and I'll be there!!

sznn from St. Pete's

Anonymous said...

I just realized that the above comment was totally inane!! oops... please apply it to the appropriate posting!

sznn from St. Pete's

Brenda Schmidt said...

The door to SK is always open - the more the merrier!

All the best on your journey, Sznn. It's not long now...