Wednesday 29 November 2023

Happiness in a shopping bag

 


In this age of consumption,

a time of

consumer objectification.

Dehumanised

by shopfront prostitution,

making you want

want they are offering.

Advertising signs tell us lies.

Pay for it.

Papering over the cracks.

Paying for happiness in shopping bags

when sadness is king,

and human contact

is what we are ewally lacking.

 

Decadent sighs,

for a few fake smiles.

Despondent nights,

in debt up to your eyes.

Slimeball conmen

see you coming

and offer it all, the world and more.

Just pay us your soul,

leave it behind at the door.

 

Disposable incomes,

victims of the fashion system.

Victims of advertising mysticism.

Blink and you'd miss them,

the subliminal messages.

Buy. Buy. Buy.

Don't you want to be popular?

Fit in with the crowd, feel the high

as the dopamine clouds your wisdom.

 

Indulge in the overflowing slops.

Fill your bellies

the luxuries never stop.

Cash strapped? Get it on credit

where the interest is sky-high.

Still paying for last year?

Don't cry.

Sell your liver,

we will make the best

christmas dinners.

Pate? Let's party.

Get your wallet out, untie the purse strings

and buy all the lies we are selling.

 

 

 

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Kyle

 

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