Just A Few Notes on A Feeding Frenzy

Just 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 ..

 

 

 

Reviews

[Thomas W Case]

There’s a sharp, almost exhausted honesty in this—like watching something familiar get stripped down to nothing and feeling no urge to join the feeding.
And that quiet walk away empty-handed carries more weight than anything taken from those shelves.

[Neville]

I feel drained just thinking about the whole affair .. oh' and a bit shellshocked too .. So ta for coming to my rescue Thomas .. Neville

[Relic]

Awesome poem. The emotion is there, the history is felt...great job.

[Neville]

it felt like wading through a battlefield .. I had to make like a deserter & head back home ..

Cheers, Neville