‘please don’t trip over nate berkus’

“The Grid … I kept dream­ing of a world I thought I’d nev­er see. And then, one day I got in …”
—Kevin Fly­nn, TRON Lega­cy

 

When you’re shop­ping in Tar­get dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, and the pow­er goes out, and the store goes dark … and you think to your­self …

This is it. It’s out. It’s done. We’re screwed.

We’re all gonna have to eat bark from the scant trees in the park­ing lot and live in mud huts with match­ing ac­cent cab­i­nets. That’s it. No more elec­tric.

In fact, as soon as my phone dies … I’m dis­con­nect­ed!

Noth­ing sur­pris­es me any more.

Bet­ter learn to sur­vive! There could be Karens lurk­ing in these Tar­get nooks and cran­nies … what’s the near­est weapon? An In­s­ta Pot? Gen­er­al knowl­edge?

This it it.

Tar­get is where I am when the grid goes down and we’re all left to our own de­vices.

Night-nin­ja sur­vival mode kicks in just as emer­gency lights flick­er on.

Now it feels more like shop­ping dur­ing a ses­sion of spooky sto­ries. 👻

But I re­main brave and con­tin­ue to pick out cloth­ing in the dark, a most dan­ger­ous task.

What col­or is this re­al­ly? It’s Tar­get af­ter all and what looks white in the shad­ows could turn out to be a trendy puke or­ange in the light.

Live a lit­tle … buy it!

Reg­is­ters sound in the dis­tance a fa­mil­iar   beep  …     beep …  the world of com­merce seems to be part­ly func­tion­ing again.

I bare­ly es­cape! Ready to brave an­oth­er weird ass Covid day …

To­mor­row we will see heads on plates alive in run­ning wa­ter and just be like, “hey man, how’s it go­ing?”

Like, ain’t no thang. Totes nor­mal.

 

—rose fante

Flom­mist Rose Fante is a wan­der­er, “yeah a wan­der­er, I roam around around around around around …” Copy­right © 2020 Rose Fante.

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