Shopping Mall

         

Black Friday came, got our coupons saved, 70% off!

Brand new TV’s, retro DVD’s, a portrait of Rachmaninoff

We scrimped and we saved

Prepping for this day

‘Best bargains of the year!’

No, Miss Gator Purse

You won’t get there first

Missing it’s my greatest fear

Oh it’s madness at the shopping mall

As the shoppers flock and push and shove

Mashed against the doors before them all

I wonder “Does all this trouble pay back enough?”

This crowd seems kind of rough!

Inside you’ll find nobody’s kind as we fight over the last shoe

It’s sick, insane, a messed-up game, but what else can we do?

Happens once a year

Money’s oh so dear

Gotta go to the sales

After Thanksgiving

Buy everything

Reduced prices, you cannot fail

Oh it’s madness at the shopping mall

As we help boost the economy

Consumerism’s taking over all

Of our brains and leaving us with stuff we don’t need

I never meant to start a fight

I just needed those gloves more than you

I’m sorry for the knee to the gut

But I need the toilet cleaner too

I never meant to start a war

Are you gonna sit and sulk and stew?

Well, in that case the joke’s on you

Everything you’ll miss with this hissy fit

Bruises are part of the day

Because it’s madness in the shopping mall

As the shoppers flock and push and shove

Stay on your toes and on the ball

If you want to walk out with something to show

For your suffering at the shopping mall

Is it worth it to come way out here

And fight each other over re-hashed sales

That were tried out on us, earlier this year?

I pity the poor cashiers!

©Emily Ecrivaine (2014)