A Few Notes on A Feeding Frenzy

Neville

A Few Notes on A Feeding Frenzy

 

The retail store immediately behind the waste recycling plant was

scheduled to close for the very last time at

seventeen hundred hours, after trading for over seventy five

whole years, serving our local community ..

The liquidation sale was well and truly underway when we both

  arrived in our old flatbed pickup trucks ..

Everything and I do mean absolutely everything was up for grabs

marked less than half price and flying

  off tired old shelves faster than a spiny tailed swift high on speed ..

Then the vultures arrived en-masse circling

  and swooping on the carelessly discarded and likewise scattered prey

and for a moment back then, I felt just like one of them

     so sick to my teeth, that I turned right around and I left empty handed ..

 

 

 

  • Author: Neville (Offline Offline)
  • Published: May 20th, 2026 07:12
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    I know this feeling very well. Your poem revolves around the themes of consumerism, loss, and moral conflict. It captures the experience of witnessing a retail store's liquidation sale, emphasizing the frenzy of shoppers as they rush to obtain discounted items.



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