In my land, а [ога who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells по one. A woman behind me

In my land, а [ога who lowered the price of
rice in a hard winter was remembered for
generations. They built him shrine. This
store does it every day, with chicken, and tells
по one.
A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence
"It's just a chicken,
Itis a chicken. It is a wound the
merchant takes on purpose. so that anyone, on
any day, with five dollars. eats like a lord. The
bird is the message. The price is the vow.
will confess: bought two. did not need two.
The second was not hunger. It was gratitude,
and it was delicious.
Some prices are not prices. They are promises.
return every week now. take one bird. bow
toward the deli. briefly, so as not to alarm the
staff. They have begun nodding back.
The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.
Long may it spin.