Looking for Cereal in City Market

Looking for Cereal in City Market
I am looking for cereal.

The aisles seem to stretchout like long lonelystretches of highway,signposts spaced at both ends, I need binoculars to read the one at the far end.I find the cereal aisle.The full 1/8 mile of cereals, from Kellog's,Post, Nature Valley, Udi's, generic; from corn flakes, to granola,Rice Krispies, Cocoa Puffs.I thought I knew what I wanted.My mind spins as my eyes scan five levels of cereal and I look desperately for S., to make a decision.I feel ill all of sudden,the shelves tower over me and the other side linedwith 20 horizontal feet of coffees and teas, hot chocolates and creamers, sugar, flavorings.S. is wavering, studying ingredients, I have to step in so we can leave. Generic old fashioned oatmeal with an ingredient list this is less than 2 inches long and doesn't contain too many words I don't recognize.I can't face looking for anything else. We pay and rush outside,stopped still in our tracks by Venus hovering next to a luminous Moon in velvet darkness.

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