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AMAZON
is the death knell
of the big box store
Steve Bezos' s profits
from Amazon
are one dime
every one-millionth
of a second
The death knell
of the big box store
is the death knell
of the shopping mall
And the landscape
of America
is fraught with these
architectured
anomaliess
Each and every
cob-webbed mall
is a vast ghost town
housing nothing
but empty storefronts
There are as many
of those dead store fronts
as there are
homeless people
in the fruited plains
and severed cities
of
THE GREATEST COUNTRY
ON EARTH
Unless,
we have already
exported that title
to China
or India
Therefore,
Mr. Bezos,
the solution
to housing the homeless
is in the palm of your hands
!!!
Convert all of those
cob-webbed
shopping malls
and ghostly storefronts
to residences
for the homeless
Whether you own
the properties
the malls occupy
is of little or no concern
You have much too much
wealth and power
for anyone
to dispute
your actions
And these newly-housed
homeless individuals
or families
will have laws to abide by:
They may not ever leave
their homes
unless it is to picnic
in the parking lots
that double
(or triple)
the size
of
the malls
Which will then shed
their cob-webs
while providing
a roof over the heads
of those
severely lacking
in the frequency
of sleeping under a roof
At the same time,
all the other roads
and streets
and communities
of our fruited plains
and severed cities
will no longer
be peopled
with homeless vagrants
to uglify them.
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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
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