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Be aware! There's a finger bitter on the loose in Camden, New Jersey. According to this, and other sources, there was a dispute in a mall parking lot which led one woman (still at large) to bite another woman's finger, severely. So, today's poem is about this parking lot violence at a Cherry Hill Mall.
Cherry Hill Mall, New Jersey
Unless someone takes
The one you've supposedly chosen
And that person is angry already about the color of her scarf,
or how her sister talks to her
Or how she holds a knife
When she cuts the bread that is served to her
with butter on a platter
with butter on a platter
Today none of this matters
Today, the righteous woman
Who came to try on clothes
Bit a woman's finger
All the way to the bone
Brown curls soft and flowing
Deceiving.
Suppose they were supposed to meet
more in common than a story on the news
Suppose the witness in the parking lot
was there to meet her lover whom no one knows
in the spot she claimed was hers, and she and he,
landed themselves shamelessly on the news
landed themselves shamelessly on the news
Roads and lots, abandoned and reclaimed
have a way of justifying their unused space
have a way of justifying their unused space
The woman on the screen may turn herself in
smelling like lime and cucumbers
from the homemade supper she fixes for her friends...
from the homemade supper she fixes for her friends...
While the victim
chooses with one hand
from a menu
of soup broth and chocolate milk
of soup broth and chocolate milk
Hospital cafeteria meals ordered for herself
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