Ode to Victor Gruen, Shopping Mall Maven
A story shining from every windowno third wall separating the storefrom the shopper, the poem from the poet shape, light, and color those were his stock in tradea socialist and Jewish refugeeescape artist from Nazi Germany who left the theater to build a worldof visual surprise artificial lightsfancy facadesrose gardenslured people away from the Depressionwith windows in fluorescent living color […]
Parking Space in the Sky
I put off going to the mall as long as I could, didn’t care to deal with parking and crowds, and everything in between like grabbing a shopping cart and rattling it loose. Sort of an act of violence. Still, a body’s got to eat, right? Nothing in the ‘frig except a boiled egg which […]