Black Friday

black friday is dead,

gone the way of minerva's legend
and the mithras cult,

the lines have returned to normal,

the crowds have gone back to drinking
and beating the living s**t out of each
other in the privacy of their own homes
and bars,

the rush was crazy,

the lines were long the night before,

but now tumbleweeds roll down
the action alleys like dust in
negative topsoil alley,

there is just silence,

the occasional binging of
the register puking till tape
and the ever-present cashier
acting themselves into
accidental youtube infamy,

one is only as bored as one
chooses to be,

the contrast is stark,

the rational animals have
submitted to their rational
sides again,

at least on the retail side again,

of course, there is always next year

Reviews

[kublakhan27]

I was hoping somebody would write something like this...whoever called it Black Friday deserves a medal...

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks, KK.

[kublakhan27]

No problem

[TLK]

Do the retailers not have to recoup their losses by charging a little bit more for the rest of the year?

People think that sales = bargain because they get one up on the retailer. But that cannot be possible if the retailer plans to stay in business.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Yeah, they do. The prices for the event are limited and they tend to go back to normal afterward. Thank you.