Around my workplace there is a buzz about my book ‘The Incoherant Rambling of an Old Man’ and a few of my co-workers asked me if I could dedicate something to them. So here is my dedication to you, Anna Bannana, Jake, Lynn, and Kindra. This one is for you. To the rest of the world…hope you enjoy it to.
This one’s for Jake because you suck in apparel
This one’s for Anna who’s just drifting along
This one’s for Lynn who Groots-out to Star Wars
This one’s for Kindra who just sings her own song
A Retail Life
I trudge through the side entrance
Past the wall of Pepsi products
Down the aisle between
Beauty aids and bedding
Passing stacks of toilet paper
As Seen on TV and Sporting goods
Deeper into the insatiable appetite
Of American consumerism
I enter through the door marked
DO NOT ENTER!
Climb the stairs to exchange my freedom
For a badge number and a pricing gun
To trade my free-will for numbness
I am now doomed to lurk up and down
These never ending corridors
Seeking, probing…Forever searching
For the end of the day
This is so whimsical..
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Thanks
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You write very well!
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Thank you.
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Your poem makes me even more grateful to be retired (if that’s possible). I never worked in retail, but every once in a while, I had days that felt like this.
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Just 689 more days…but whose counting.
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Bad thing is, this is my second career. Truth is, it’s not so bad, just mundane. Just two more years though.
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Excellent. May the opportunity to break loose come soon!
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Thanks, I would like to say that my vast experience could help these young kids. I at least get to play the wise old geezer card every now and again.
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I will from now on try to imagine my day at work with such colour and excitement! you really have a way with words!
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Well…I thank you kindly.
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😁
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Thanks for reading Amanda. I’d give you a smiley face back, but I am way too old to figure out how to do it. These new fangled contraptions boggle my feeble mind.
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That may be a good thing. Seems like technology is What’s zapping our minds
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