Let's Get Hysterical

Let’s get hysterical.

Let’s go mad

About the Winter Solstice passing

And our football team winning.

We party hard

For Christmas and New Year.

The Americans do Thanksgiving too.

Bad times for turkeys

Great days for making sales.

Anniversaries, birthdays and Celebrity celebrations,

Big Brother and Get Me Out of here.

X Factor and Lithuania’s Got Talent.

All excuses

For making mayhem

And a fast buck.

Any present will do

No matter how useless

Or banal

At times like these.

Compulsory enjoyment

Even if you’re ill.

Oh what sheep we are.

(Apologies to sheep).

We must conform

Comply

Follow fickle fashion

And hug the herd.

We may be social animals,

But woe betide anyone

Who is

Different.

“Be yourself” they say,

But do they mean it?

Course not.

The “Individual” is cursed,

Cast out

A leper.

It’s time to stand back,

See the truth

And find your inner soul.

Break the brainwash,

Defy the dictators

The Nanny State

And really,

Really

Be You.

Paul Butters

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