Where I shaved off precious minutes by using the
MFC (or "Most full cart") method
An algorithm developed by MIT scientists that
Proves if you are
Intent on getting on the shortest line then you
Should:
-go to the left
-avoid male cashiers
-seek the fullest cart
Feeling light-headed.
Feeling light-headed.
Compliant, aligned and conformed to this scheme
I should have been seemingly satisfied to pay
To be asked to present my card
So that in a flash I could be on my way
Like a bat out of hell except for my
Eye
That fell
Onto a bar of butter, more rectangular than stick-like
Having been scanned with a single "beep"
(post-beeped, post-scanned)
(post-beeped, post-scanned)
The letters "demi-sel" proudly printed on its side.
Bien sûr this is all happening in
France
Where demi-sel is salted or lightly salted butter
I confess I have skirted this product for years and years
Friends and family have tried to get me to let go and
Ride this senseless aversion head on
My nephew thought he had it when he showed me how in
Minecraft a character jetsons hundreds of bars of butter into
Thinking that I would have me
Burning in virtual empathy!
Then my doctor told me about the micro
Flora rich fat soluble properties that
Peppered with a touch of salt
Can lower your adrenaline spikes while
Supporting thyroid and extracellular fluids.
All this I barred out
Crossed out in my mind like the words in
Jean Michel Basquit's paintings
Words that appear to reappear just because
They have a line through them.
But the main story here is the salted bar of butter
Not the Zika spraying of Naled in the wee hours of Miami
Not the alarming rise of homicides in Chicago
Not the fact that most para-olympic athletes
Despise the word "inspiration"
I cried out staring at the butter that I ended up paying for (because
Somebody, unbeknownstly chucked it in my cart)
"Demi-sel!"
Yet with my poor pronunciation the cashier understood
"Deux mille seize" (2016)
And the person behind me understood
"Deux mille seize"
So from all directions I was looked at with stupefaction and a drop of
Displeasure
As they thought how this displaced shopper wearing
As they thought how this displaced shopper wearing
Shorts and shoes with no socks on a cold, rainy day
Could make a striking statement that the salted
"Demi-sel" butter was
A cru of deux mille seize.
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