Poetry day 8
Light
bulb
Once a
shimmer gleamed
And you
laughed at your choices
Over time
they froze
And you had
no choices left
The shimmer tarnished and
died
'Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.'
'It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.' So sayeth the mighty John Steinbeck. Today has been Black Friday and what a black day it is. Hordes of people desperate to have something for nothing. It really is the antithesis to Thanksgiving yesterday and ironically hails from the same shores. Why can't we import a festival that celebrates all that is wonderful about humankind, why do we have to have something which encourages greed and (if the tv footage is anything to go by), appalling bad manners when shopping? Apparently, it was Amazon who imported Black Friday five years ago (thanks for that) and each year it has
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