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bargain hunting bullets

by Mary Frances Spencer

discount bins buries
unseen debt
floats revolving cards
around roulette’s wheel
we roll again
shopping for distraction
dicing body and soul
swallowing media anti-depressants
to numb dumb down
disquiet drugged masses
glued to flat screened reality
while unrequited rages
fester

the few silver lined
laughing all the way
pollute a brazen
undisputed trail
through what used to be forest

and hurl another chunk
of ice
into the world bank

safe
until the store opens
for tomorrow morning’s
spree

03/05/2008

Author's Note: In the spirit of the Walmart thread we've got going on here... MFS

Posted on 03/06/2008
Copyright © 2024 Mary Frances Spencer

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Keith McFarlane on 03/06/08 at 07:23 AM

Impressive! "shopping for distraction" is what it's all about, I'm afraid...and there is just a chewable irony in "glued to flat screened reality/while unrequited rages/fester" -- love it!

Posted by George Hoerner on 03/06/08 at 04:09 PM

Really nice write!! And what is really sad is that so many just put one foot in front of the other and just shuffle on through picking up what ever will fit in the basket without a thought, numb to the world around them.

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