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Crocker Park is a retailer’s fantasyland

Of what they think America really is 

A great gathering place of chi-chi 

Shoppes a few only chi- shops catering

To ladies whose thigh gaps have since

Filled with cellulite but who must have

The latest in gear these people dress up

To go shopping so they can dress up

For more shopping the next day heaven

Forfend anyone should dare cross the 

Main street looking like they got off

A Greyhound the windows would shatter

Dealers pay to park their priciest models

In front of the Apple store all day knowing

They’re inciting gotta have it car lust

Among some I-T gurus who have the bucks

Doctors’ wives who really would like

A new beemer 7-series four-door so tired

Just bored silly driving everybody else’s

Damned SUVs you might as well hang

A sign on the door I sell drugs as drive a 

Range Rover don’t get me wrong I like

The boulevard style of some of the layout

The pedestrian space is superbly close

To the parking areas comes in handy

When I had to haul a heavy iMac to the 

Apple hospital what do they do with

Middle aged staff at the genius bar

Can’t send them out to pasture twenty

Years short of retirement must go into

Consulting maintenance of equipment

Too old for Apple to service either 

They’re all young or they’re Dorians

Gray with portraits aging in their attics

I don’t think you’ll see older salespeople

In the shoppes either once they’ve 

Lost that youth appeal their tickets

Are punched for outlying Sax’s Nordstroms

Folly of follies Macy’s who's closing

A lot of its underperforming outlets

So where do they go they’re too

Old for Crocker Park Trader Joe’s

Doesn’t have that much turnover

Crocker will out age you

Out class you out style you out before

You can find another buck you can 

Spend hope your lawyer guy squeeze

Gets a nice juicy personal injury

Case in time for next season all 

The acquisition that will entail now 

That your Julia finally wants to keep

Up with her friends that’s one of the best

Parts of getting everything there

You’ll never bump into or be bumped

By a homeless beggar on their streets

It’s all private property I don’t think

They can get anywhere near us

Bad enough to see them as characters

On gritty cable shows Julia I’m so 

Glad you don’t like pre-torn dress jeans 

I’d never know when to 

Throw them away

c. J.S.Manista, 2015