Oreo Oreo

Oreo Oreo -

Where art thou?

My mouth waters,

When one remembers youth,

Adrift an Oreo dream filling,

Such a delicious American crème.

Oreo Oreo -

Oh my, the rising Tide of senior prices,

Now Brand Names, become luxury items,

One remembers using - as young adults

Grabbing a hand full in, “I Have A Dream.”*

Oreo Oreo -

Where is that long ago cookie coupon -

That sale memory from 50 years ago?

Can you feel the ole Rock ‘n Roll Freedom?

Able to choose 35-cent McDonald burgers.

Gas, way under a dollar a gallon economy.

Oreo Oreo -

Sharing a big glass of cold, cold Lawson milk.

Lawson’s gone along with old Revco neighborhoods.

Today Wal-Mart’s have replaced Woolworth’s, Oneil’s.

Tomorrow Amazon seeks to command America’s future,

Where Oreo’s will probably stay - but Twinkie’s will go.

Oreo Oreo –

The American dream of twisting Oreo crème falters.

One has become generic aloft Social Security welfare.

Nabisco was absorbed into Phillip Morris into Kraft

Finally going global as Mondelez International and beyond,

That in acquisitions Oreo’s pay higher CEO salaries.

Oreo Oreo –

We shall overcome, is now about those - who rule the world.

That power trumps those, who want and need - an Oreo coupon.

Where now American dreams - is not having any Oreo crème filling.

Today one pays generic prices that need retirement bank loans,

That now Oreo’s manufacturers make millions off Food Stamps.

Oreo Oreo –

Please put one in my coffin alongside a Lawson Milk Glass Jug.

That somehow America’s Draft has overcome this Vietnam Vet.

For Veterans do not hold a bully trump card, as an Free Verse America Poet

That life in America is all about the Termination of Oreo Poetry.