Remember when I accidentally made a new poetry form (The Abracadabra)? Well, I’ve made a variation on that inverted triangle, adding more words underneath to form a triangular base and now I’ve got something that looks like either an hourglass or a diabolo, or maybe a somewhat difficult to hold goblet (or, it turns out, like an inverse Ninette with more lines). And so, deciding we need more

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#NaPoWriMo Day 24 and I wrote a piece of free verse inspired by the prompt “an Inconvenience Store”, after something in a conversation with one of my partners sparked the notion. I started riffing on what books in an inconvenience store would be like, and then this poem turned up later. Remember that, if you’re a subscriber to my Patreon, you can hear a recording of this piece (and the twenty-three preceding it) there. The link to the relevant post is here: https://www.patreon.com/fayroberts/posts/franchise-168468340 --- The opening hours are on a rota, operating on base thirteen-and-a-half, and staff aren’t expected to start until half an hour past the advertised time (if you can find it). The push-to-open door is marked Pull, and the chime it summons does so somewhere in the range beyond human hearing, endearing itself to a range of nearby creatures. Every knife is as blunt as your uncle, made up for by the teaspoons, scooping their scalpel way free of all confinement, which is how they hide after purchase. The labels for the food are all in Ge’ez, directions to the exits in Quipu, while the WiFi password changes every 49 minutes, a blend of Tagalog and Tengwar. Welcome to the books section, where nearly every volume is the second of a trilogy, and printed in point 2 or 200, the paper gossamer-thin or thick as vellum. The shopping baskets have one handle each, the trolleys, once you’ve prised one from its mate, have wheels that are distinctly non-Euclidean, myriad, or solo. If you’re interested in opening your own branch of the singular Inconvenience Store, the application forms are comprehensive, and only accessible on Internet Explorer 4. Don’t ask about the bags. Trust us. Oddly enough, I made this one myself. (Yes, there’s an alt-text transcription!)

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