Hillbilly Elegy

hurry, pacing between aisles, looking
frantically for a particular item. But
others waded through the aisles
deliberately, carefully marking each item
off of their list. Some folks purchased a
lot of canned and frozen food, while
others consistently arrived at the
checkout counter with carts piled high
with fresh produce. The more harried a
customer, the more they purchased
precooked or frozen food, the more
likely they were to be poor. And I knew
they were poor because of the clothes
they wore or because they purchased
their food with food stamps. After a few
months, I came home and asked Mamaw
why only poor people bought baby