Well North of the City

Let's workshop this poem about a souvenir shop in a remote region that sells products with outrageous messages of hate directed at tourists, products that themselves have become tourist attractions

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Well North of the City

The souvenir shop
in the once-hidden locale 
sells hats and now mugs
with incitements

too anti-tourist—even
bald enough to channel
the despising eyes
of the diner waitress

(“Tourists Noosed at Nightfall”)—
for buying one not to be
a tourist must-do
all its own.

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