POETRY

The Wonderful New Shop Around The Corner

Why I love retail

Picture by author. Indian Big Bazaar shop, Bengaluru, 2004. This is back when only big cities had supermarkets.

If a new shop is called 24/7
Don’t celebrate yet
It might just have been opened on
24/7, the 24th day in July.

The shop has all the yummy
things I like to cook,
Spices to make the food tastier
packs of instant soup for late…