i would make a horrible sign
for a supermarket
lets say i was
the Safeway
forty feet by
thirty feet capital
red block letters
standing tall every day
i am a frustrated
sign itching to yell
to onlookers
i am the wrong way
i am not enough
to describe anything
it is dangerous to think
that i house
all that you want to contain but i
am only the silent words standing
on the roof unable to really tell
you anything about what’s inside
somehow you were taught to know
that i mean food
that the Safeway is food
but i am so sad today
because i can never say
what i contain
i only represent
while rusting away