POEM
Directory
Macy’s Hickory Farms
Circuit City GNC
Payless ShoeSource The Body Shop
Sears Eddie Bauer
Kay Jewelers Payless ShoeSource
GNC Circuit City
LensCrafters Kay Jewelers
Coach Gymboree
H&M
RadioShack
Gymboree The Body Shop
Hickory Farms
Coach
The Body Shop Macy's
Eddie Bauer GNC
Crabtree & Evelyn Circuit City
Gymboree Sears
Foot Locker
Land's End
GNC H&M
LensCrafters Kay Jewelers
Coach Land's End
Famous Footwear LensCrafters
H&M Eddie Bauer
Cinnabon
LensCrafters
Foot Locker RadioShack
GNC GNC
Macy's Sears
Crabtree & Evelyn Crabtree & Evelyn
H&M
Cinnabon
Kay Jewelers
Lands's End
NOTES: As a continuing part of Robert Fitterman’s epic Metropolis poem, which examines the consumerist urban landscape through found language, “Directory” is exactly that: a directory from an unnamed mall, looped with poetic concerns for form, meter, and sound. Fitterman’s listing of a mall directory purports to be as numbing, dead, and dull as the mall experience itself, hence expressing truth in the non-expressiveness of his linguistic subject matter.
Source: Poetry (July/August 2009).
This poem originally appeared in the July/August 2009 issue of Poetry.
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