The day has come!
Cut through the food, the fat, the gluttony,
it is time to kick it into high gear.
Let the alcohol lull the body to sleep for a brief two hours,
soon it will still be dark out
and we will all come together and ask the same question
as we did last year
Why?
One little word that will come out more like a grunt.
The heat will be on, though
and the goal of coffee
will inspire us to get through the first stop,
the longest stop.
It is noticed
as it was last year
that this frosty marketplace of these Babylonian times is relatively vacant,
allowing us ample space for our monetary indulgence,
this once-a-year valid excuse to purge on everything corrupt with modern civilization,
after-all, it’s only a buck, one-day, and one-day-only
Once our first mission is accomplished
with sun up and coffee hot and sweet
the second, final, and marathon-length leg begins.
Goal: stuff trunk for stuffed stockings
and we are bi-partisan in our season of giving.
The blue store, the red store, the orange store
Asian countries, Latin countries, Hindu and Muslim countries,
we go to and buy from them all.
It is a simple, duty-driven purge
towards
the American Dream
for
the American Dream
and created wholly and solely by
the American Dream.
Duty to God…Complete!
Duty to Country…Complete!
Duty to Family, Friends and Entitled Strangers, Complete!
So we then take on our duty to ourselves
admiring the victory of consumerism
standing arm in arm, ready to claim our final reward,
four battered, exhausted, inspired civilian soldiers
arriving at the diner
the church of Long Island
to now give duty to our bodies with
milkshakes, double cheeseburgers and vegan pecan salads,
and it will become hazy after that,
as feet drag across the blacktop
to the car for one last trip
home.
After the weekend of illness, complaints and exhaustion
we will, one day,
join together again
to talk, laugh and reminisce
and we’ll shake our heads in disbelief of our lunacy
but same time next year
when the turkey is devoured
and the children are asleep
and the alcohol has finally kicked in
we shall join once again
for this annual duty to the world!
af
(written on pen & paper)
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