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“Corner Store” by Brian Satrom
Brian Satrom
CORNER STORE
If there’d been an Asian-American Norman Rockwell,
he might have painted a scene
like this. The Vietnamese shopkeeper with gray,
slicked-back hair and bony hands,
a baseball game on his small black-and-white TV.
And I, the white, dark-haired
nine-year-old in cut-offs sliding a penny across
the counter toward him.
The title of the painting might read Debt Repaid.
The shopkeeper’s moved
that I’ve [...]
