Market Economy

July 3rd, 2006 admin Posted in Poetry |

You’ve reached the land of marketing genius
and of course, “Your call is important to us”.
To continue in English please press one
or you may hang up and miss all the fun.
We’re currently busy collecting “Low Hanging Fruit”
you may listen to music after hitting mute.
I’m away from my desk, “Thinking Outside the Box”,
enjoy you options in the land of stocks.
“Buy Now. Pay Nothing Until…” next year, see
we’ll make you pay more, but we’ll call it free.
“Buy One”, why one, “Get Two Free”,
you hardly needed the first, now you’ve got three.
It’s the “Closing Down Sale”, “Everything Must Go”.
your conscience won’t forgive you if you don’t throw
your hard earned money to the “Economies of Scale”
and the outsourcing and the offshoring and the “Weekend Only” sale,
for once a weekend is gone, it’s gone … for the next five days.
We’re “raising the bar”, “pushing the envelope” just in case
your “Purchasing Power” decides for you, to buy.
Just remember “terms and conditions…”, still, “apply”.

(Anil Krishna, July 3rd, 2006)

Reference: the dictionary of (bull.shit): a shameless opinionated guide to all that is absurd, misleading and insincere. Nick Webb, SourceBooks, Inc.