Time and Space at the 7-11

To-go coffee lids

pellets of creamers

chilled six-packs
     behind glass doors
scratch-off lottery tickets
objects arrayed
to assist time.

Even jelly-filled donuts
sealed inside translucent cases
travel apart
in a different dimension.

For a visitor to this station

senses accelerate

--Enter

--Search

--Posses

--Pay

--Exit

Like the passage of time

     in a black hole

     you live out a full existence.

While those in the car

hardly notice

     you've been gone

          but a moment.

Reviews

[Glen Yumang Manese]

Like the whole concept here with this read...you can do all of that and still seems like you've done nothing at all in the view point of others...I believe you are tying to use Einstein's theory of relativity...with the black hole...without going into detail...because I would write a whole book of a comment...

Thanks for the invite...I'm back to work with copy writer and doing my best to write 1000 words a day...and a subject you do not get to choose...will be busy the next few months...so I will read all RR"s might just take a bit longer to get a review...hope you understand...plus promote my book: The Onyx - Vena Amoris...for late next month release…

[Tam Warink]

I have no experience with the passage of time in a black hole... but the rest of it was a resonant tuba-du-force. I especially liked the last stanza; and you're right, they hardly notice you've been gone, do they?

[rutherford]

Thanks Tam. I don't fully understand it myself but I read somewhere that time travels at a different rate if you're in or near a black hole.

[Tam Warink]

Ah, yes. ...an then there are supposed to be microscopic black holes floating about everywhere in the fabric of space. I wonder if that's what happens when we have those car key moments? One of those invisible black holes intersects with some portion of the brain (or the car keys)? Do you reckon it just spits them back out again somewhere else? Now, look what you've done! From the pen of the near-immortal Seinfeld, "...no sleep for YOU!" (or what that soup?)

[Pryde Foltz]

The convenience stores of a country say a lot. The ones in Japan were awesome. Seriously, if there is a need, they filled them.

[rutherford]

I'm thinking about how spaces are arranged to change our perceptions around time--7-11s for quick in and out vs. casinos that have spaces designed to keep you hanging around so you lose track of time.

[Pryde Foltz]

Funny I find casinos oppressive but I could lose track of time in a Japanese 7-11.

[Michael G. Smith]

Been there done that New York. I like to visit but I will take the country any day.

[Rita L. Sev]

A whole world inside a convenience store... yes, it does seem like that. I like the "slice of life" that you have detailed here - you have a knack for noticing... Well done!

[rutherford]

Thought it might appeal to the everyday we all have so quickly.

[John]

Takes us out of the mundane everyday space of a gas station food store ( or maybe the time given the name 7/11) and gives us a real sense of the extraordinary

[rutherford]

Thanks John. 7/11s always seem like these little enclaves of life that become almost homey at night.