Get a Whiff of the Prices - poem
Get A Whiff of the Prices
low*prices*
Prices are so low!
That used to be Spain back
in the days before it entered the European Common Market (pardon me, the EU)
Prices were so low you
could buy anything there.
Greece was like that and
definitely the Holy Land, when my Grandparents visited in 1961.
(No one’d go to Cozumel or Puerto Vallarta.
Mexico didn’t exist.)
‘Note the low prices
on everything in the store’ Motto courtesy of the five Sergeant stores in
Indianapolis, USA, 1967.
‘Exotic merchandise from
Egypt and Africa – bargains galore’, announced the Worlds of Wonder chain. Why,
this figurine of Anubis was only twenty dollars American!
The prices have to felt to be believed!
Copyright 2013 Patrick Calhoun 29205
Poem URL
"Whiff of the Prices"
The publication
Holiday Cafe - about page
Holiday Cafe - Summer 2013
Who knows what you’ve gathered from the poem. But there were a couple of things I thought
were in there.
The syntax of the poem jerks around the way the traveler
is worked over by a constant change in local languages.
Tourists of the 50s and 60s who traveled in search of
bargains on native merchandise are not held in contempt by the poem: Americans,
like all buyers, love a deal.
posted by Patrick @ 3:34 PM
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