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Bookshopping

The woman sat behind the counter
leafing through a magazine-
"Elle," by the looks of it, or
maybe "Seventeen"

I asked her to help me find
a book that I wanted to read,
she turned her head and curled her lip to tell
me how much money I would need.

I said "That's okay I don't have
enough money to buy it now,"
she turned around and wouldn't speak
to me, so I went out into the snow.