05-10-2025, 09:45 AM
“Dollar Store Philosophy”
Aisles in dollar stores,
where everything costs more
than a dollar now,
seem like the perfect purgatory
for prayers I would never say
or even think
because it’s easier to stare at sponges,
instead of looking at myself
and realizing a no refund policy
is as much a metaphysical conundrum
as an inconvience of the time.
Leaving me to remember the old prices
like dead philosophers
who wouldn’t drown in beer bottles
from my university days,
yet died of thirst
after middle aged me dried them out
with a flood of worries from car payments,
mortgage rates, rising inflation
and the inevitability of tariffs.
Aisles in dollar stores,
where everything costs more
than a dollar now,
seem like the perfect purgatory
for prayers I would never say
or even think
because it’s easier to stare at sponges,
instead of looking at myself
and realizing a no refund policy
is as much a metaphysical conundrum
as an inconvience of the time.
Leaving me to remember the old prices
like dead philosophers
who wouldn’t drown in beer bottles
from my university days,
yet died of thirst
after middle aged me dried them out
with a flood of worries from car payments,
mortgage rates, rising inflation
and the inevitability of tariffs.
Time is the best editor.