Laura Leiser Poet Quatrain

Don't Care

Grab that flat screen
It's what I really need!
I saw it in an ad
On a newsreel feed.

Black Friday is upon us
Forgot yesterday's meal
The day they call "Thanksgiving"
Was thrown out on it's heel.

I want, I want, I need
It's like an endless well
Insatiable desires
Are sending me to hell.

Does this stuff really satisfy
Or leave me in the mire?
Greed and numbing apathy
Caring not, my soul expires. 

2014

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Tom Valles July 10, 2023 at 3:57 PM Brilliant quatrain, so true and telling of our culture. Amazing write. Laura Leiser July 17, 2023 at 7:23 PM Thank you, Tom! I wrote this so long ago now…it still applies today, unfortunately…

Anthony Beesley December 24, 2014 at 5:26 PM Greed is a gangster Laura Leiser December 24, 2014 at 6:45 PM So true! Thanks for your response!

Pandita Sietesantos November 30, 2014 at 10:06 AM Excellent piece with a powerful societal message! Very clever write, Laura! Love it! Pandita Laura Leiser November 30, 2014 at 10:23 AM I do hate the greed surrounding this time of year. Wish people could focus on the real meaning of the season. Thanks for your response!

Faye Gibson November 29, 2014 at 9:31 AM Yes, this sounds like our culture...Well done. Laura Leiser November 29, 2014 at 2:11 PM Thanks Faye. I know, it's sad that Thanksgiving literally gets "gobbled up" by consumerism.

Robert Stoner Jr November 28, 2014 at 4:34 PM loved this, a mirror to our society and it's small mindedness ,keep em coming, thanks Laura Leiser November 28, 2014 at 7:56 PM Just changed the ending ever so slightly. Thanks for your comment, Robert.