Still Life with Choppers, Burrito, and Salsa Bowl

Attention K-Mart Shoppers¹

The Blue-Light Special², Choppers,

Is Aisle Five–and Neat-O³

We throw in a Burrito⁴

With bowl of Salsa Rojo⁵

Très chic⁶, Tré Cool⁷, très Boho⁸

A feast of contrariety

In Southwest High Society⁹.

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¹ Kmart was a supermarket chain popular in the 20th Century. It still has an online presence but aside from Miami and Guam the brick&mortar empire it once was is gone.

² The Blue Light Special was a Kmart flash sale that lasted as long as a rotating blue light shone and twirled.

³ When I was ten in 1964 “Neat-O” meant fun, groovy,desirable. Its etymology might owe something to the Beatnik era.–“Daddy-O” for instance.

⁴ A Burrito is a tortilla encasing anything from beans and cheese to chile-marinated meat. Spanish for “little donkey.”

⁵ The two major salsas are salsa rojo (red) and salsa verde (green).

⁶ French for “quite fashionable.”

⁷ Nom de guerre of Frank Edwin Wright III of Green Day fame.

⁸ Short for Bohemian, loosely meaning “unconventional.”

⁹ Needed a phrase to rhyme with Contrariety.

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Endnote: the “Choppers” in the photo are a 3D-printed cast of my upper and lower left back teeth, made to enable casting of a molar crown in the upper.An oblong scanning device was manipulated around that sector of my mouth by a dental tech.