Notes in Response to a Trumpist Store Owner
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Notes in Response to a Trumpist Store Owner
This is the front window of a discount tourist shop down at the Jersey Shore. The shop sells T-shirts and tchotchkes at well-below-market prices, and the prices reflect the quality and the throwaway nature of much of its merchandize. For a long time, it served as a useful counter to its more expensive competitors, and many who made their way onto Long Beach Island left with $3 tank tops and $20 sweatshirts from its racks.
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Author: hankkalet
Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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