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Grocery-Store Feast God: The Cash Pig

About the Retail Mart

By Rob AngeliPublished 11 months ago 5 min read
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The MONEY theme was coined in weights by

the Cash Pig; we as Employees serve it well in perpetual faith to the eternally right Customer, Guest of Honor.

[let’s not make claims for Golden Standards backed-up] UNDERGROUND: it was a chthonic theme of constantly tipping the scale in equivalence by worth standards to the actual use-values of the Merchandise [metals of merchants] while setting the scale or weighing the Material to set them off against various quantities of metal,

No other Material being worth a Burrito when it comes to setting Standards of Worth-First. This was first represented on printed paper in China during in the Song(?) Dynasty? or which?

In any case inflation of paper lira’s eurofication to the proverbial almighty dollar, seadrifts: low bills and high bills are supposedly representative of a nation’s ghostly gold hoard [red gold white gold and yellow gold] PAPER MONEY is born, autumn leaves by rivulets swept away in the craze of buying and selling frenzy with the clinking of coinage digitized directly to deposit a return on your Transcendental wage-flow, poured into digital databases, a complete abstraction for number in units of grain-dole, run-on sentencing themselves into heaped cybernetic baskets which are heaved with great labor to a magnified cathedral of cards, data stored in the 4th Dimension: an etherealized banker’s omnipotent incentive. We mean cybernumericals representative of paperheaps, all this counting and accounting for...

they had everything worked-out\

they had it all figured-out\

the Money theme was coined in weights.

COUNTERTOP Register, LA CAISSE

Cashing in and cashing out

number generators

Receivers

Posted at the Point of Sale

Cashiering on the front lines Vast Market Floor

the walls are a rainbow of regurgitated merchandise, w/secret passages behind

some warm and earthy with cardboard and concrete

some refrigerated with the wipe-ups of frozen milk curdle

the many names of the BEASTMEAT

Animal Sacrifice

to the Grocery-store

Feast God— self-sacrificed Korn killer

CHECKING OUT a scan and a beep, serial music, the barcode or virtual reality’s code in the great big inventory list in the cyber-sky, a bubble of a cloud, metamorphosed through

Infinite Appetite

BEEEP

lettuce

bleep beeep

fennel/cigarettes

stationary at your station, on your feet all day the dizzy daze

beep beep

two prepackaged beef hash and some soy sauce

a beef and potatoes kinda girl

beep beep beep

udon noodles candy plastic and a bottle of Merlot

blee-beep bep-beee beep

a kilo of Brazilian beef

a half kilo of Jerusalem artichokes

two kilos of lamb for stewing, local?

four and a half pounds of chicken thighs

and seven bottles of cheap sparkling

Moscato

soon to be gathering flies

animal sacrifice to the grocerystore feastgod,

REGISTER: the Cash Pig

keeping register retail clerk duties from high to low, an army of them on the floor at the walls

golden new year wishes

year of the pig

FORTUNE AND PROSPERITY:

may you have many children

counting up the cash harvest for a Depot like that for bank deposit reapers coming in their armed armored trucktanks it’s all show

the Middle Mind of Many

peer-pressuring multiplied mayhem, that’s a crowd for you

the Common Market and the Mainstream Media Also Known Officially As (CM an MSM)

most governments are being popularly viewed in films as conspiratorial

the Open Market\

the Free Market\

with the bank eruption mistrust, everything liquefying, a panicked grab n’ go in the comedown haze

of a GREAT DEPRESSION, manic and maniacal endeavors of a Shady Illuminati crew called

Interfactional Wankers, built in Egypt by the proto-FreeMason Klub, international bankers and

advocates and their chess-game of avocadoes which debouches on a Great Takeover, the Great Banana Co. tyrannizes a paranoid world, full of

multiple emergency scenarios and evacuation plans DOOMSDAY PREPPING in eschatological practice for volunteer picketeers!

No, it is the mere action of a great beast that feeds on paper, innocently as a beast. The favored

the open-market feast-god, harvesting hearts. The senior grunt at this location--

COORDINATOR

he would rather have just been stocking in the back or cashing on the front lines, but all these numbers, come to collect and coordinate the daily/weekly/monthly/yearly earnings—and do 5 other people’s jobs at the same time running round and round in circles getting very very dizzy.

Only in the reality of paper and metal for a money theme, we have a pledge of value backed up by weight of material, a Bond

and then you digitize your account tokens calculated in the wire-coils of screen, a plastic

card will give me credit, I’ll find ways of paying.

NUMBER. Can you

number the stars

go and catch a one. No shame in

Collecting TRASH and collecting CASH, being the

cash-counter of the black cash-boxes A LA CAISSE

and the boon of the safe-codes, key custodianship:

granted.

But I’d so much rather be

Collecting TRASH than collecting CASH

running shift as a manager on duty. Too much, or never enough.

rather than COORDINATION of this choreographed retail madness of maximizing the

tallies to ultimate money-ripeness

just doing business hail Mercurial

god of thieves and merchants

Gift of the Gab (RELAY OF THE GAB)

points of repair

a gabby greeter but a petulant skinny old bird

Gertrude used to talk on the spinning wheel about a vision for a book centered around the

conversations she had heard at or around the register throughout a long day’s shift and collected the

gist of the GOSSIP a cashier had with regulars and with strangers

a Saga in the Sequence of Snapshots

checkout lane chatter

Ethan said it’s the best when you’re jaded and you just need to zone out in

STATIC ASPHYXIATION (spelling?)

Grocery List and

the Checkout Stand CUSTOMER SERVICE FACE

while waiting

why this jump and drop of a pin concierge servicing, to the rude and cantankerous?

baggers and carry-out customer service representative clerks RETAILING from wholesale, never, a

whole army or fleet of what they called historically a variety of revolving door employment

situations (you can bag for yourself/no more buying what you can’t carry)

carry-out

respect

expecting expertise in food-products and their designation of origin, healthcare items, wine counsel

with a florist’s trade and a Pharmacist’s

SERVICE W/A SMILE Deli and Bakery cornering the mass market in sections, special

service sectors, mega-market super-hall(e) [how did they squeeze it in so small a space?] with

everyone left the graze

clerks clerking in the bustle, supplying cash and change; tech support on the machines

A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING

all eggs in one basket[case]

buying in bulk, the froth of the surplus, among other stocks upon stocks [custodian of] the Stockpile/

skimming the overflow of other expired goods and employee discount scavenging before the

excess is added by dumpsterful to collective waste-grounds

the Pit of Pantry Pile

mainstream monosodium glutamate.

Where do the garbage-pit and the larder-spaces meet?: MEAT

Animal Sacrifice to

the Grocery-store feast god for

mutual CONVENIENCE

customer service menials

subs and doms the HIDDEN PAY (wage bondage)

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About the Creator

Rob Angeli

sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.

-Virgil Aeneid I.462

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  • Katherine D. Graham11 months ago

    Quite the shopping experience!! Globalization , consumerism, socialization and normalization all wrapped up in a bundle! thanks for capturing the experience.

  • C. Rommial Butler11 months ago

    The Templars went underground but Baphomet made his way to the deli, didn't he? The fractional reserve doesn't deserve us, but how long can we go without it? It's easier to think it operates according to a plan, but it's taken on a mindless life of its own, a blundering behemoth whose masters have lost control, like King Kong broke his chains and terrorized the cityscape. How many planes to shoot him down?

  • Rob Angeli (Author)11 months ago

    Thanks again Kendall. I'm glad it was potent; I am pretty fond of meat myself though.;) Important to present things from all angles and carve that fine point where beauty meets repulsion.

  • Kendall Defoe 11 months ago

    The word 'BEASTMEAT' makes me want to go vegan. And I don't know if I want to touch the money in my wallet anymore... ;)

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