Bah! Humbuggery!
Jingle jangle, jingle jangle, jingle all the way!
Merchants gleefully fill their tills sellin' stuff for Christmas Day!
I can barely hear the joyful Yuletide carols that I hold so dear,
For the ka-ching, ka-ching of lucre that keeps ringin' in my ear!
My spouse scurries about spendin' like it is goin' out of style!
I wonder how I'm to pay for all this stuff, grouchin' all the while!
Like dear old Scrooge, I ain't in the mood for celebration.
Even Santa is grumpy and frowns on all this commercialization!
Jingle jangle, jingle jangle, jingle all the way!
Oh what fun it is to wave goodbye to Santa and his sleigh,
And the lights and tinsel and gee gaws and other such lures,
That help feed the greed of those bodacious entrepreneurs!
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Placed No. 3 in Carolyn Devonshire's "Commercialization Holiday Humor" Contest
November 2010
Copyright © Robert L. Hinshaw | Year Posted 2010
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