Mart

(There was a moment 
today
when I stood in the basement
of the discount department store
all sad, windowless minimum wage
and Made in Taiwan
disposables
but they had rolled out 
the Christmas trees
and colored lights
and glittering ornaments,
that I breathed in the 
idiotic scented pine cones
and my whole being 
capitulated 
to one, short break

from the tragedy that is

Life, 

and I was exempt.