Seven Stores In Seven. Days
Someone is threatening to bomb Krogers.
Oakley
Newport
Bellevuei
Erlanger
Cold Springs
North College Hill
Corryville.
No explosions, just employees
and shoppers standing
in parking lots until bomb squads
found nothing.
I saw the police cars
fire trucks, ambulances
at my Krogets. the Oakley one.
Why would anyone blow up
Krogers, where everyone buys
bread and peanut butter and pasta?
Because the greatest terror
id the fear of the ordinary.
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Thank you for writing this poem. It’s quite relevant and expressed very simply. The last line is chilling.
Your poem reminded me that once when I was leaving the Newport Kroger, a swath of cop cars pulled into the parking lot. Later that day read that someone had tried to rob the bank inside. Scary things going on in Krogers up there (and everywhere)!
Current and honest. I’m glad I didn’t read this before I went shopping today!