The silly season – smiling faces
Brash carrier bags with garments new
Filled with «bargains» - what think you?
There's crowd control at PRIMARK* store!
Cheap clothes; low wages for the poor
Shoddy goods for shoddy minds
But who reads deep between the lines?
Over-consumption boldly stares
Consider 'brocantes' and street fairs
Excess and wastage fill our lives
So retail therapy survives...
But possessions stay here when we die
So do we need to stock-pile high
Our homes with clothes and ornaments?
Perhaps I'm being too intense ...
(c) Poet in the woods 2017
* in Rue Neuve, Brussels
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