| Thankslesstaking Thursday Black Friday Matters? “Saturday, in the park, you’d think it was the Fourth of July” Whoa, chill man, “Easy like Sunday morning” rest up for click like cray-cray Cyber Monday go generous for Gimme-Gimme Tuesday what? no Woke Wednesday for masses of people unemployed and accessing food banks as the foggy shopping season comes on little alley-cat’s hungry feet online shopping a god-send overnight shipping at no charge for $50 or more for those not risking donning mask apparel as the birth of the vaccine savior hovers on the horizon like a half-baked rat-tested dark cloud maybe a cleansing life-saving rain for some but i ain’t gonna work on Big Maggie’s Pharma no more b-cuz so-called “experts still don’t know the long-term effects of the vaccines and won’t know until after the trials are completed and researchers monitor participants in the real world for years after.” Real world?! Can anyone tell me how Frankincense and Myrrh became Flatscreen and Mall? Sorry if i disappoint you but “I have no gift to bring pa rum pum pum pum” but if i listen for days maybe weeks or by Springtime i’ll hear that woodpecker tapping the tree of life “pum pum pum . . . pum pum pum . . . pum pum pum . . .” NOTES: quotes and riffs:
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