Alison Cassidy - VIP Customer

Acres of 'stuff'
fill this brightly lit superstore,
where fabric junkies
shiver in air-conditioned
summer cold.

Big Brand Sale signs
beckon bored Crafties
and Do It Yourselfers
with too much or too little
time or money to spend.

Disinterested staff
prop behind tables,
scissors snipping.
Next please...

Bleating customers
laden with fabrics
clutch plastic numbers
mindlessly...

The small leather 'scraps'
are not what I want -
but packaged so prettily,
and marked up to buggery...

I have no choice,
I pick my number,
I wait my turn.
Do you have your Spotlight VIP card?
My what?
Do you want to become a VIP customer?

You must be joking!

Alison Cassidy

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/vip-customer/