Day 303 - Anywhere America

Hop in your truck, car or van

Hurry get moving as fast as you can

This day is not going to wait for you

After all in the real world few things do

They speed up on the old turnpike

Pedal to the floor, urging the engine faster

Unaware of how we did when young with only a bike

It would seem today, to be the worst disaster

Power resides in the lines that guide drivers

Without them we would all turn into colliders

Hundreds around the country can say

This road is like that one I get on every day

Day 163 - Gross Excess

Too much is never enough

To keep us living in the rough

The chip, the scratch, it was too old

It has been far too long since it was sold

These thoughts plague us into wanting ever more

But watching such behaviors we ask what for?

The music sounds the same from each

Blasting or humming, it has the same reach

Still the same tune and melody

So what is it that we crave, honestly?

The new, the hype, the shiny beeping, buzzing toy

Should be in the hands of every American girl and boy

Or so scream the signs and advertisements that choke

Our society so heavily we can no longer revoke

Our money or insane shopping spree games

Forever trying to buy ourselves the names

That we build up, or hope to in our lifetime

Lost often when we wasted our prime

But you can hopefully say you see progression

A moving economy during our recession

Still I admit we could easily live with less

But then even I, participate in the gross excess