Creatures of commerce Dead expressions in their eyes Mindlessly shopping Buy bigger, better Advertisements everywhere Never good enough Quaint trappings of souls Lost on the road to nowhere O Suburbia Strings of colored lights Tacky ornamentation Battling neighbors Need for perfection Destroys holiday spirit And misses the point
Posts Tagged ‘consumerism’
Some Pre-Christmas Haikus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, consumerism, haiku, poetry on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It's Not Easy Being Green
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged capitalism, change, consumerism, environmentalism, green on June 11, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I am not an environmentalist. Though I probably appear to fit the profile of a typical environmentalist… or I did until the giant gaggle of yuppies and mass media acquired the rights to the word “green” only to start selling it off piece by piece. I like polar bears. And I kind of like penguins. [...]
