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Theriot, Elizabeth

English

University of New Orleans

Ellipsis Volume 41 Article 24 2014 Self-Check-Out Elizabeth Theriot Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ellipsis  Part of the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Theriot, Elizabeth (2014) "Self-Check-Out," Ellipsis: Vol. 41 , Article 24. Available at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ellipsis/vol41/iss1/24 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of English and Foreign Languages at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ellipsis by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact scholarworks@uno.edu.  Self-Check-Out Elizabeth Theriot  Ryan Chighizola Memorial Scholarship Winner      In the fall I'd make unnecessary rounds  over scuffed, speckled tile  in case you were namelessly there-  an anonymous book browser, a stranger buying milk.   Watching life at noon, seven, dusky three,  I saw the  protruding stomachs  pregnant with hamburger-death   stretching  filthy shirts and wide-eyed navel   (Cyclops, do you still blame Nobody?)   and the young man's leg,  tendons swimming a  synchronized stroke  delicately in cream smooth skin  under the fluorescents hairless and illuminated.   (But I am relieved you’re keeping busy  discharged from the squealing basket wheeled  nail-biting purple eye socket army  of sleepless bags, potato chip bags, plastic bags of groceries)  

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