On the Sales Floor: Retail Haikus

Ian Belknap
2 min readNov 6, 2023

As a Super Successful Hollywood Screenwriter, I obviously work in a hardware store in Baltimore. It’s a place brimming with more triumph and tragedy than you can possibly imagine.

Our cash registers are nowhere near this cool. Photo by David Carboni on Unsplash

Morning sun kisses

Cobwebs through greasy windows.

Glorious, really.

These gross upbeat songs

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Ian Belknap

Founder WRITE CLUB. Essays, satire: Rumpus, Chicago Trib, Chicago Reader, American Theatre Mag, etc. Partner & I sold pilot to Sony-Tristar writerianbelknap.com