New and On View: Mudlark Flash No. 20 (2002)
Mall Poem | Francis Raven
Francis Raven wrote these poems, she says, "at two vastly different malls,
the Stanford Mall in Palo Alto and Union Station in St. Louis, in order to
understand the phenomenon of the mall not to mindlessly criticize it."
The mall is open, common and destroyed.
It is our own notion of destruction
manifest,
but it is also our own openness,
our field and food.
Our choices gone crazy,
elegance stripped away,
but this is not necessity either.
It is the wealth of anti-elitists
put to strange use, recreating
an elitism again in their own image.
Every object in the mall
is a great idea
metastasized.
from "Union Station"
Spread the word. Far and wide,
William Slaughter
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