SKU 0105-002 · Issue 01 ·
The Man Who Checks the Receipt
by Ray Bualat
He draws a yellow line
through the middle of everything I own
and hands it back.
Counted. Reviewed. Released.
No church ever did it faster.
I push the cart out into the lot
absolved, holding a rotisserie chicken
like a sleeping child,
and the doors close behind me
without a sound.