all those boistrous voices
calling to us as we loiter and spend in the noisy malls
and peruse endless sales ads, ad nauseum.
Spoiled and poised to add to the plenty that we already have
while the have nots who've never had close to what we've had
stay harassed in the heave-ho of no hope.
The get rich quick execs get their kicks
from digging into our riches by reaching out to us.
Pitching easy credit without any hitches but the glitch is
that they're itchin to get us endebted.
A pre-approved American Express or Visa with no credit limit. Incredible idn't it?
While those applying with the express interest of being an American- inhibited from their visa- are limited
to just a pipe dream of a green card.
We're deep in debt with buyers regret
always moving toward something more, yet
we can't get
any closer to it. Got it?
We imbibe the moment we try on our first bib.
We thrive not on feeling thrifty but a short lived feeling of being alive right after our newest purchase,
Always diving in forthwith without propriety
or thinking of the less privileged in our society,
binging on variety, forsaking sobriety
for the sake of what our affluence affords us in its entirety.
We need to slow down and face up to this spending show-down,
yo, the low-down on what goes down
is that we're no doubt the the most spoiled consumers around.
We want so much,
but so much so
that what we want is just the power of suggestion
which never before were objects of our affection
but to whose allure we're now abjectly subjected. Our only objective
is to add to our ever growing collection.
I'm convinced we need to come back to our senses since
we've lost sensitivity to the difference between dollars and cents
and no longer incensed by the senseless spending that fogs
The clarity of greater disparity between rich and poor.
We're just fat and NOT happy
cause happiness is not a matter of outmatching the man next door, amassing the maximum,
ever maneuvering to be the masters of
our own economic destiny.
It's time to sober up. I'm so over overtly overspending.
But now vying to be a veritable moderate model of a new mode of living modestly.
It will be costly.
But maybe the first purchase whose price we pay honestly.
It's on us, see?
Let's see what kind of human beings we can be
without another big spending spree.
