Christmas Shopping

Christmas Shopping

By George Amadi

December pay-day one whole week away,

Adrenalin rush stifling can’t be kept at bay.

Instinctive buying this pushes all the way,

Dresses, shoes, here and there, on display,

Frenzied women lots snatch from a tray.

At a farm, fowl prices haggle, have their say;

To shops in SUVs then, drive without delay,

Smuggled booze pick up along the highway.

‘Shopping till you drop,’ indeed, gone astray,

Christmas my locale makes go gay up all day.

Lagos, Dec. 20, 2014