The Boxing Day Sales

The Boxing Day Sales

are so pornographic
with all their flashing lights
the tickertape parades
falling free from newspapers

the celebrity magazines
covering the achievements
of people lives that the reader
identifies as part of their identity
cos that’s what they heard someone else
say about someone else ay?

which is reason enough
to buy any Usher Album
for $10 and get another
for free
20% off everything at Topman
when you take store credit
Playstation 3’s come with two extra games

DHF have always got a sale running
but it must end this weekend
it must end
cos it starts a fresh the Friday after next
after the next one that follows
another dried out wallet
and all those haemorrhaging
plastic cards

then one month later
after all the money shots
the cardboard boxes
tucked safely in the loft

through the letter box
fall the red letters
of the Christmas present