Crash Commercialism Poem by RIC BASTASA

you bought so many things

crazy commercialism

the moment you take them in
you feel you have no need of any thing

you put them in the store room
they get dusty

they become forgotten

some do not have plates to put their food on
you have all of them hoarded

see a shrink, find out why
you have been buying things that you never use

and yet you do not give them away
you are keeping all the living birds inside the tomb