Art of Retail
By Lucas Smith Posted in Poetry on November 27, 2015 0 Comments 1 min read
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If retail is an art, then wholesale is a slaughter–
the shopkeeper an artist, the wholesaler a soldier.

The customer is a gallery, with hooks and white walls.
The bulk-buyers wield kalashnikovs.

One is a beautiful thing, surplus is monstrous.
Retailers buy wholesale. They fight on both fronts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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