Useless worries #4

The how and why of longing
is understanding that retail
therapuetics leave one tied down.
There's too much to carry out
or in, or into something smaller
more frugal, lets face it, cheaper.
This isn't our father's generation
when you could work your whole entire,
life for one company and reap
pensions and timex quartz stop watches.
Sometimes there's too much to move
too much space required to store,
all the very small bad days
and where will the shelves go
to stack up and up and up
the knick knack patty whack of
this spree, or that sprained knee.
Sometimes, there's more to care for
and less to carry. Sometimes there's
too much for the maybe of tomorrow,
what might happen when I'm no longer,
tied to this profession or that,
and I do as JFK suggested, for my
country? Not in this day and age son,
I just want to travel and live on
goverment doles in third world holes.
There'll be too much for public storage,
too many boxes aof unread books
added to the collection, every good
library needs this and that, and
you can't imagine being without
one more tea-lighted evenning,
they come in bags,
fifty to a hundred.