Welcome to America the Mall
"Welcome to America the Mall"
This is the mall.
Call Jewelers
Eddie Bauer
Mervyns
GUESS
Dillards
Wicks 'n' Sticks
SoftWare Etc.
Bath & Body Works
Lilia Rubin
Broadway
VGI
And Etc. and Etc.
This is America. This is where you buy it.
What did my old white friend Peg say?
"I'm glad my children are not consumer oriented."
I'm glad also.
But it pisses me off she can say that.
That she should say that.
With no compunction about it.
That she and her children can afford
not to be consumer oriented.
Protected by privilege.
Because they're within it.
They have the protection of a consumer culture.
Because they're within it.
Strange. But not strange.
This is America where poor people have to pay for bare survival.
This is the Mall.
Welcome.
Because we're within it.
--Simon Ortiz
This is the mall.
Call Jewelers
Eddie Bauer
Mervyns
GUESS
Dillards
Wicks 'n' Sticks
SoftWare Etc.
Bath & Body Works
Lilia Rubin
Broadway
VGI
And Etc. and Etc.
This is America. This is where you buy it.
What did my old white friend Peg say?
"I'm glad my children are not consumer oriented."
I'm glad also.
But it pisses me off she can say that.
That she should say that.
With no compunction about it.
That she and her children can afford
not to be consumer oriented.
Protected by privilege.
Because they're within it.
They have the protection of a consumer culture.
Because they're within it.
Strange. But not strange.
This is America where poor people have to pay for bare survival.
This is the Mall.
Welcome.
Because we're within it.
--Simon Ortiz