Tribute To a Grocery Cart

Tribute To A Grocery Cart I see it outside the store Wait for me Calling to me Offering to help my aching feet Making it easier to walk the aisles But, I know it is evil It knows just how much money I have Not a penny less or a penny more It leads me past the cookies Past the candy And past all the things I shouldn’t eat Then it takes me to the register Carrying all the junk I didn’t need To a girl with the sweetest smile She knows its power She counts up my items Dollar by dollar she adds to the total I know it is laughing at me I know I have spent every last cent Then it follows me to the car like an old friend Helps me by waiting until I unload Then it laughs again as I realize That I had forgotten the milk I went in to buy And it gets taken back into the store To wait calmly for another victim While I sit and curse that lonely grocery cart The demon of the supermarket