Church Street in the Melbourne suburb
of Brighton is all about the gods of retail.
The church on Church Street now doubles
as trendy cafe where shoppers can spend
time and money before again charging forth,
to air-conditioned shops with inspiring
or bucolic names like Mecca, Seed or Country
Road. Country Road, the shop, is about as far
from a road in the country as one can get.
The road taken; the road more travelled.
Out front in Waiting Mode, designer dogs
on expensive leashes. They piss on shopfronts
where retail therapy is conducted without
too much thought of full or reduced price.
Parents casually teach their children how
to boost the economy on a street where
there is next to no chance of truck-
bombs or mass murder out of the blue.
Odds are you can bet on it.
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