inside the pharmacy
inside the mall
a girl, my student (?)
paused beside
a hanging plant
in a greenhouse room
but dark
like an aquarium
and reached up
to touch a leaf
"my grandfather told me this was here
when he used to come here"
but of course that's wrong
only new dead things
populate the drugstore
and they're supposed to
get out of there
ASAP
the next thing
the costume scholar said--
"nostalgia as a product
in global modernity"
there's a place for it
on the shelf (?)
plants might outlive
your grandfather
of course
so might
stuff
maybe the dream
wished to insist
things take root
and keep growing
anyway
what we miss
and how we keep
finding ways
to buy it back
deep inside the
deep inside
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