051213 - Where to now

Where to now?

We never should have gone to Galactic Center,
the mall is light years across,
so many shops,
so many miles of corridors!
do you know how long it took me
to get to Starbucks on a Segway?
there are some beautiful things,
the plasma fall in Star River, for one,
between the headquarters of Nebula Design
and Out-of-this-World ice cream,
that shop, the main one,
has all 31,000,000,000 flavors,
but the chain exists only in the mall,
and it's still the biggest in the galaxy,
exotic clothing was never so exotic,
knick-knacks never so kitschy;
at Body Adornment, you can get
any of a thousand intelligent species
grafted on...remember the ad?
the guy with 8 heads,
and they were always arguing?
what a laugh!
two of the heads went on to star in
the hit series "Shoulder and Thigh";
food, games, major appliances,
they actually sell a garbage disposal
the size of a million suns
(though if anyone ever bought it
I don't know where they'd put it)

too late now, of course,
what with 14,000,000 franchises already compacted
in either the biggest retail disaster
or the greatest marketing gimmick ever.
I hear the Conglomerate of Magellan
offered to take the Great Aggregator
off their hands at 1/2 price,
with free delivery.