Get the latest tech news

A Supermarket in California (1955)


What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! I saw you, Walt…

We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier. Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage? Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe?

Get the Android app

Or read this on Hacker News

Read more on:

Photo of California

California

Photo of Supermarket

Supermarket

Related news:

News photo

California’s Wildfires Show No Signs of Slowing Down

News photo

Flock Safety quietly hired a sitting California mayor. Now he’s suing Flock.

News photo

Watch Duty surpasses ChatGPT as top free app on App Store as California fires spread