55 - Prada Marfa

Alone on a dusty highway,

miles from any consumer,

let alone one in the market

for expensive shoes.

As a store, it would be useless,

forever in the red,

soon torn down to make

a parking lot.

But as a monument to consumer folly,

Prada Marfa compels,

and tourists beat a path to its door.

Read more about Prada Marfa here.

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