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Painting Entitled "De Kaffetafel" (The Coffee Table) by Ernest Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Public Domain Painted in 1907 |
The narrator's voice in these sonnets varies.
"Retail Therapy" is narrated from the viewpoint of a catty neighbor.
Retail Therapy
Joe De Luca was the first to go,
a massive heart attack at thirty-eight.
Next, Tyrone Lake; and though the papers said
it was an accident, we’ll never know.
Then stogie-smoking Viktor Novak, freight
conductor for the D&H. All dead
within the space of several months. We paid
our due respects, brought casseroles, and made
novenas for their Holy Souls. We see
the newly-widowed neighbors coffee-klatch,
and by year’s end, they’re on a shopping spree.
Now Joe’s kids’ dungarees don’t sport a patch,
the Lake and Novak homes are mortgage-free,
and three cleft women’s pumps and purses match.
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