All in a Day's Work

All in a Day’s Work

Supermarket domination
Fools a bargain hunting population
Selling nature’s goodness by the pound
The salt and sugar keeps us round

Two for one it’s quite a deal
Fast food fills the trolley
We are the ad man’s easiest steal
And the big stores chosen folly

There is no price reduction
It’s a psychological ploy
It’s a hypnotist’s injunction
We’re now the retailer’s favourite toy

And it’s all
In a day’s work
For those in ties and shirts
Lying is the new tai chi
The profits never get hurt

And the feverish desire
To move in for the kill
Was to open an instore surgery
To treat those who think their ill

The symptoms diagnosed today
To those that scared themselves
Was obesity and heart disease
and other things found on the shelves.

© SJ2009