Tribute To A Grocery Cart

Tribute To A Grocery Cart

I see it outside the store

Wait for me

Calling to me

Offering to help my aching feet

Making it easier to walk the aisles

But, I know it is evil

It knows just how much money I have

Not a penny less or a penny more

It leads me past the cookies

Past the candy

And past all the things I shouldn’t eat

Then it takes me to the register

Carrying all the junk I didn’t need

To a girl with the sweetest smile

She knows its power

She counts up my items

Dollar by dollar she adds to the total

I know it is laughing at me

I know I have spent every last cent

Then it follows me to the car like an old friend

Helps me by waiting until I unload

Then it laughs again as I realize

That I had forgotten the milk I went in to buy

And it gets taken back into the store

To wait calmly for another victim

While I sit and curse that lonely grocery cart

The demon of the supermarket