23 December 2006 | Vol. 6, No. 4
Motives for Buying (or Loving): According to Sears, Roebuck & Co.
to make or save money for praise to be
popular to escape pain to be in style
for cleanliness to avoid criticism to save
time to save energy for enjoyment to
conserve our possessions for affection
to gratify curiosity to be like persons
above us to satisfy a craving for the
beautiful
About the author:
Danielle Aquiline is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago's MFA program in poetry. She teaches Composition at Columbia. Danielle is also an artist-in-residence with Chicago's Poetry Centers and enjoys taking poetry into elementary classrooms through this project. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pebble Lake Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Wicked Alice, and Eleventh Muse.
For further reading:
Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 6, No. 4, where "Motives for Buying (or Loving): According to Sears, Roebuck & Co." ran on December 23, 2006. List other work with these same labels: poetry, catalog.
