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Shopper's Prayer
by S. Donovan Mullaney → (All Poetry by S. Donovan Mullaney)
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Our Supercenters, who are
in forest towns and city jungles,
we hallow your Low Price.
Each Sunday, your flyers come
and we run, spending
the last of two weeks' labor
in stores from Beijing to Washington.

Sell us this day, money-changer,
our fiesta-ware,
knick-knacks and cheap underwear;
and forgive us the occasional trespass
onto competitors' store premises
(we want the golden deal!)
as we forgive you your human relations.
Lead us to a disposable world
and deliver us from value.

You're in all nations, all kingdoms; yours
a global market power; yours, a plastic chain
of demand and supply, long enough to lasso
the moon—
now and forever. Or until
we want our money back.

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 Reviews of "Shopper's Prayer"
Reviewed by Chris Rosenau
Reviewed on January 24, 2007
I have said that paryer again and again, Of course I have thrown in the occassional, "Please help me with my twelve dollar oil change." And of course there is the dollar days, in which case it sounds more like this, "Lord please give me The courage to park in the parking lot without a bloodbath, the striength to push through the crowd that blocks the door, The wisdom to find another way in if I can't walk over the bodies." Amen!

Reviewed by Flying Fox Ted L Glines (Reader)
Reviewed on December 25, 2006
And then we throng to the half-price after-Christmas sale, like lemmings rushing into a siren song of marketing proving that value is disposable in a culture where a cartoon lizard sells insurance and destiny becomes a landfill which, in time, is covered by a new shopping center. Hey, only 365 more shopping days until Christmas! You've done a brilliant job with this poem. Right on - write on!

Ted

Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater
Reviewed on December 19, 2006
A rollback write, giving us more than a fair deal, two for the price of one. Shopper's Prayer is stocked, a real shelf-pleaser, I've enjoyed this basket of goodies in this aisle, Shea...movin' on to the checkout lane to check out your other offerings...Blessed Be.

Sage

Reviewed by Brett Moore
Reviewed on December 19, 2006
Brilliant satire. "Lead us to a disposable world/and deliver us from value" - I think you have summed up the entirety of our existence in this age.

Brett


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