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Queues, queues, queues

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

But for who?

Those who can’t pay for gas and electric

It’s the same old tired songs that pour out

Of every outlet

Every café bar

In every town

Where shop staff in red and green

Looking like shelf stacking zombies

Try to ignore the fight for carrots in aisle 5

And the guy that’s at the back gate

As queues form at checkouts

And in lines of cars trying to escape

The glitter belled jingle jolly

Shouted out in wordy smiles and

Give us your money

Cash or card we will take it all

Anything will do

But can you take your screaming kids

And bursting at the seams trolleys away

We are just shut for one day

So we know you will be back

But the siege has begun

And will start again New Year’s Eve

With left -over turkey and mince pies

And enough booze and food to stock an army

So, form a queue gently now

Before the next one is due to take your old

Well- worn tree down to the dump

Along with inflatable sagging santa’s

And plastic mistletoe

And sack loads of rejected paper

Queues queues, queues

It’s the most wonderful time of the

YEAR !!

◄ Wise guys

The needle and the sun ►

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Martin Elder

Sat 31st Dec 2022 08:59

Thank you Keith. I do tend to get more than a little cynical at this time of the year. i always value your comments
Thanks again old friend

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keith jeffries

Fri 30th Dec 2022 15:23

Martin,
this really is a work of art as you have turned the festive into a lament. Perhaps this was not your intention. As Christmas approaches I find myself wishing it was already over and done with. The same goes for the New Year. Surely all this frenetic energy and spending does not constitute joy. When it is all over we are financially worse off, suffering with hangovers and with the winter left to face and deal with. I somehow feel that we have forgotten or lost the reason for this festive celebration.
Thanks for a well thought out and truthful poem.
Keith

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Martin Elder

Fri 30th Dec 2022 09:54

Thanks for all the likes and thanks to Stephen Leon Rose M.C and Ullieam for your comments, much appreciated.

Blessings to all and a happy new year

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Thu 29th Dec 2022 12:33

I'd support a street market if we had one.
But Das Kapital has put paid to that idea.
The plan works every time:
1. Demolish homes with an open market at their centre,
2. Buy the land-and the Councillors.
3. Sit on the land for several years til the time is ripe.
4. Then build a supermarket where we have no choice but to buy imported crap instead of what our farmers produce.

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 28th Dec 2022 15:07

To which I add - in the hope of giving custom to the deserving:
Why not forego the drive and park-it...
And support instead the local street market? 😀

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Tue 27th Dec 2022 18:58

brill work as per Martin. Its that final queue I dread-ooer!😱











Rose 💋

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Tue 27th Dec 2022 17:51

Nice to be entertained by you again Martin-hope you had a yummy kind of yuletide!

LS

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Stephen Gospage

Tue 27th Dec 2022 16:46

An entertaining comment on the festive (or silly?) season, Martin.

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