Black Friday Ii Poem by Joe Rosochacki

It’s 7: 55 in the morning,
About a year since I did the last black Friday observation, *
The Hotels in Mumbai, India are being hit,
There was a warning about many of a New York Subway station,
I was viewing CNN to day,
By the way,
The Big Three are on verge on bankruptcy,
We’ve gone through bail outs,
economic stimuli that the price of gas devoured,
The banks failing due to “toxic mortgages”, *
The Big fish eats the little fishy,
The fisherman catches and eats the bigger fish,
A new president has been elected,
the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,
An economy in turmoil that is what faces Barack.
So much for the lame duck,
But we are not rich but we are prosperous,
We are not great health but we are getting mentally healthier,
Judy and I are happy,
- which is better fiscally or psychologically/spiritually wealthier?
Black Friday is not for us,
Let all the people wait overnight for $499 42” LCD tv’s at Best Buy,
Will they better off in a couple years?
The tv is not going to make them happy,
If something doesn’t happen quickly,
there will more unemployment,
-foreclosures,
And most people will be in tears.
I’m for sure if Black Friday is supposed to mean that.
For at least one Wal-Mart employee,
he mourned for his passing,
He was amidst of bargain seekers who trampled on him.
He gave his life for Wal-Mart he will not see Christmas again.

Two more bit the dust,
At a different location, Toys ‘R’ Us.

It looked they had their last Thanksgiving meal,
what a pity
They were shopping in Palm Desert, California,
The victims were identified as Alejandro Moreno,39, of Desert Hot Springs, and Juan Meza,28, of Cathedral City.
It started with wives brawling like monks did at Jerusalem a few days ago,
(see observation Mayhem in Jerusalem) religion is not necessarily the cure,
They escalated into gunfight in the electronics section and the check-out line,
Geoffrey would be shocked that is for sure,
Palm Desert Councilman Jim Ferguson said police told him two men with handguns shot and killed each other.
'I think the obvious question everyone has is who takes loaded weapons into a Toys 'R'' Us? ' he said.'I doubt it was the casual holiday shopper.'

(Toys ‘R’ Us was shocked and put out this statement yesterday,
'We are working closely with local law enforcement officials to determine the specific details of what occurred, ' the statement said. 'Our understanding is that this act seems to have been the result of a personal dispute between the individuals involved. Therefore, it would be inaccurate to associate the events of today with Black Friday.')

In Valley Stream, New York,
There was a Tsunmai of early shoppers that thrashed through the door,
Yet another person had given his life for Wal-Mart.
The impatient crowd knocked the employee,
- identified by police as Jdimytai Damour,
to the ground as he opened the doors,
leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion.
They looked upon him as peon.

Dozens of store employees trying to fight their way out to help Damour were also getting trampled by the crowd,
Fleming said.
Shoppers stepped over the man on the ground and streamed into the store.
Are you ready for more?
When store manager announced that shoppers should get the out the store,
Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede,
said shoppers were acting like 'savages.'
'When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling 'I've been on line since yesterday morning, '' she said.
All that were trampled were not dead,

(A woman reported being trampled by overeager customers at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in Farmingdale, about 15 miles east of Valley Stream, Suffolk County police said. She suffered minor injuries, but finished shopping before filling the report, police said.)

(11-29-08)