Song of the Mall Rats by A.A. Gunther

Song of the Mall Rats 

by A.A. Gunther 

We're drinking drinking Jamba Juice 

Out of a plastic cup, 

Wouldn't it be great if this could 

All 

Blow 

Up? 

We're standing by the Spencer's we admire the supply, 

Can you just imagine if it 

Blew 

Sky-

High? 

That straw you use is killing all the turtles every day, 

But shit, your teeth are sensitive, I guess that it's okay.

And on the escalators we pretended and pretended: 

Wouldn't you just love to see the whole damn thing upended? 

We'd sleep in the IKEA and we'd meet inside the Sears, 

We'd eat the deer that wandered in, for years and years and years. 

We looked at movie posters and we tilled the seed we'd planted, 

We stood above the food court and we wove our bleak enchantment. 

And way out in the parking lot, our voices did resound: 

Wouldn't you feel FREE if it could All Fall Down? 

*** 

We're lying wide-eyed in the dark and texting from in bed. 

Wouldn't it be shitty if it 

All 

Stayed 

Dead?