Mattress Land

Imagine a crowded mattress store, although many of them are mostly deserted.
(For foreign readers, in the U.S. it's not unusual for customers to try out the mattresses
they are thinking of buying.)

             Mattress Land
 

is where strangers briefly sleep together
on separate beds, wandering flocks of Goldilocks
trading places in search of the one that’s just
right - not too firm or too forgiving- for the price
they’re willing to pay;  or they lie on memory
foam, still as corpses, and pretend to be
the princess who can sense the pea beyond
the two minute test, the restless nights,
the bitter mornings, the pro-rated guarantee.