Best Retail Poems

It's one week till Christmas
And we've had enough
Of grumpy old shoppers
Complaining about stuff.

They hate the line-ups,
They hate the cashiers.
They won't be happy 
Till they have us in tears.

The things they are after
Are long gone from the store.
They find it incredulous
We won't be getting more.

Last minute...

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It's two weeks till Christmas
And the store is a zoo.
The customers are grumpy
And I guess we are too.

Whatever they're after 
Has already been sold.
If all the tinsels silver,
You can bet they want gold.

The cashiers are all working
As fast as they can.
Would serve the shoppers right
If...

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An over-burdoned wife from old Sydney Town,
    Life on top of her and feeling quite down,
         So, retail therapy off she went,
      On Master Card two thousand spent,
 ...

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Yesterday I found myself slumped
into the saddest of trenches,
for no particular reason
other than a new moon cycle.
Instead of flopping myself
in my studio’s armchair to write,
I drove to the mall for an outing 
probably more expensive than 
what a therapist would charge
for an hour in his...

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There's a dinging in the kitchen,
There's a ringing in my head,
Someone's singing in my closet,
But, I fear the tenor's dead.

There's a clatter in my cupboard,
There's a matter unresolved,
There's a tiny pitter patter
Which is screaming up my hall.

There's a titillating teeter—totter
Slamming up and down.
And the bumpiness...

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With maxed credit limits, we’re still roving for goods
spinning our wheels over ought-to’s and shoulds
We’ll shop till we’re dropped,
might see a guy popped,
in the nose over faded blue jeans.

If it’s the very last pair 
(on sale, of course, at the Mart)
but please, let’s try to...

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I will say it loud and proud, from a cloud or in a crowd;
I will say it by rail, mail, in a fierce wail or pierced braille:

I do not like the holiday assail so trite-spiked by all retail:
Pumpkins in the summer, early turkey ads for...

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I work in the retail sector.
I smile all day long.
I hear the same lame jokes
and pretend to laugh along.

"If it doesn't scan its free""
I hear sixty times a day.
I smile and say "No it's not"
because I really need the pay.

"The price is too high' "Can...

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It's mid November and in every store
there are Santas and  Reindeer and coloured lights galore.
The sales clerks are stressing this time of the year
as all the cranky customers are drawing near.

They want this, they want that. God forbid we run out.
They'll string us up...

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You hang on a rail
Poised in the window.
Flaunt yourself to passers by.

They gawp at you
Then walk on by.

You start to feel cheap
No one cares anymore
They want to swap you
For a newer model.

They move you to the back 
You've sunk to their level.

Few people try you...

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There’s a place in never never land
Where shopping centres go
Every single night to replace 
The goods they have on show
You’ll never see them travelling 
'Cos they go through hyper-space
And sometime in the panic
Get returned to the wrong place
So if you’re in your city centre
And the...

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A Christmas Thought
It was a night like this
That the world changed forever
Some say for the worse
Some say for the better
A child arrived
The King of Kings
The world would be different
So the Angel sings

Unto you a child is born
The Son of God by name
Some were happy he...

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Kick the boot  

Kick the boot  

Put it in the net after we shoot  

Kick the boot  

Kick the boot  

Get a goal that would be a hoot  

Kick the boot  

Kick the boot  

I will play...

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six inches of trash

for half fluid ounce product ...

green waste for the face







... CayCay
June 15, 2019...

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My television is now in the trash because it became to much ,
the constant sound of selfishness and lack of human touch .
That one eyed monster is finally gone and good riddance too all it’s lies.
As I slammed that lid and I’m glad I did...

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