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Ho-Ho-Ho

Welcome KMart shoppers blares through the air as a mosh pit of greedy Holiday buggers hurl themselves through the glass and aluminum doors—Obese bodies press (children jammed between white-bread). Trolls in strollers screech in pain and howls of Christ mask laughter. The shopper's feet bombard the glossy, line-oh-lea-ummm floors as the overwrought, over-privileged, truffle sniffers, poke through the hundred and fifty percent marked-up—mark-downs, for things they already own in triplicate. 

canned music
jiggle bells the room:
torn wrapping paper
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Andresen Avatar
January 3, 2016 at 6:46 AM
:) - Happy New Year, Debbie :) - Best wishes and hugs // Anne-Lise :)
Guzzi Avatar
January 3, 2016 at 6:52 AM
Happy New year to you as well Anne Lise!
Kendrick Avatar
December 24, 2015 at 3:33 PM
I liked this one when I read it earlier..Congrats on your win..Sara
Tor Avatar
December 21, 2015 at 7:35 AM
Love this Debbie one of my favs and very funny!!
A   Avatar
December 20, 2015 at 7:24 PM
Debbie, Congrats on your Haibun Free-Style win. ~LINDA~
Thirtyseven Avatar
December 20, 2015 at 12:48 PM
I never doubt your ability to write Haibun. Unfortunately for this contest though I was trying to launch a new form, the Haibun FreeStyle, in which the poem can be anything but a haiku. And your wonderful entry with it's cynicism, and humour, looks to me to end with a haiku. As always though, love your work.
Guzzi Avatar
December 20, 2015 at 3:49 PM
No problem Scott I miss you b home soon
A  Avatar
December 20, 2015 at 11:14 AM
DEBBIE:) NICE HM..... SKAT
Kendrick Avatar
December 5, 2015 at 8:40 AM
Very descriptive work..Like the use of metaphors..Truffle sniffers takes the cake..I am one of those truffle sniffers..LOL..We don't have a K-Mart anymore but I am sure that Wally World is just as bad..Sara
La France Avatar
December 1, 2015 at 7:31 PM
Debbie, you captured it perfectly, I just hate the commercial aspect of Christmas, the meaning is totally lost, you deserve a big fat 7 for this ~
A   Avatar
November 29, 2015 at 5:56 PM
HI DG, No thank you, I will stay home. Order online, glad to read. LINDA
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