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Catina Noble has over a hundred publications including short stories, poetry, articles/interviews and photography. She has been published in a variety of places including Chicken Soup for the Soul, Bywords and In/Words. Please feel free to stop by at http://catinanoble.wordpress.com

Clean Up In Aisle 4

Please be seated
this will only take a moment

Paralyzed with numbness
I lurk behind display cans

Waiting for this feeling to pass
I move a few steps and suddenly

I am attacked by glass spaghetti sauce jars
crashing around me

Gooey contents creep close
and for a split second

I forget I am here
to collect a prescription

I panic when
a voice over the intercom

Announces to clean up the mess
with me in aisle four