shopping at the mall     1) a box of wine   2) a plastic blister package     full of a white fluid     mounted against a piece of cardboard     on which is printed:     "0.5 liters,     pasteurized,     homogenized,     grade A,     MILK PRODUCT"   3) a tape of tea   4) a bottle of bread   5) a skein of rain   6) a reel of reality   7) a tube of immortality   8) a can of yesterday   9) a spool of life   10) a lump of spite   11) an ounce of prevention   12) a pound of cure   13) a ton of oblivion   We take it all home in a wire cart, and the wheels go clackety-clack! on the sidewalk.     © Michael Fleming Aranyaprathet, Thailand November 1981