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Black Friday Brawls


It's Black Friday and it's time to get ready for another door buster sale

Television sets, video game consoles, waffle irons, even hammers and nails

It doesn't matter what store it is, it is the same in every place you go

Over a Vizio TV set, you will get punched right in the nose

It's six o'clock in the morning and the customers barrel right through the door

Trampling the poor employee as he lies dying on the floor

For the employee, the management doesn't even call for any help

Instead they ask the customers if they need assistance with anything else

The customers want that waffle iron and they are ready to punch you in the face

These people belong in a psychiatric hospital because they are mental cases

If you try to grab his laptop, with it he will bash you right over the head

It really makes no difference to him if you get a concussion or end up dead

It's survival of the fittest and they are all animals in this jungle

They will cboke you to death over this Playstation Bundle

Security will not cut it, you will have to call law enforcement 

To break up all the fights of these forty year old adolecents 

Maybe this is the real reason why people shop online 

Is getting killed over a toaster oven really a dignified way to die?

Kick you, punch you, choke you, trample you, throw you against the wall

So many ways to get hurt or die in the Black Friday Brawls 

From Rhymes With A Reason 
Copyright 2018 Resisting Distress Publishing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Paul Ryerson

I am a writer who writes poetry & plays. I have also written a short film & I created an animated series on You Tube. Included on Power Poetry are seventy poems from my five poetry collections, Rhymes With A Reason, Too Much Unwanted Noise, Broken and Burned Bridges, Dying On The Inside and Fool’s Gold and Fool’s Paradise

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Personal/concrete observation of Black Friday chaos, minimal abstraction.

SparseMeasureDense

Dense, rapid-fire catalog of violent scenarios and critique per lines.

DarkSentimentBright

Strongly negative; brutal violence, death, mental illness accusations throughout.

StillEnergyExplosive

Explosive language; punching, trampling, choking, bashing, kinetic intensity high.

MicroLengthEpic

Approximately 20 lines; falls in 16-30 range, leaning longer.

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Survival of fittest metaphor, jungle comparison, some rhetorical flourish.

LyricVoiceDramatic

Pure lyric/satirical internal voice; observer commentary, no dramatic personas.

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