Toys

A bunch of cardboard and plastic shit
Priced to copyright
Luscious nymphets
Or rodents who look like luscious nymphets
Impossibly strong military personnel
Or robots that look like them
Small-featured races
Ethnic in pigment only
Lights
Wheels
Buttons
Noise

Why do we buy this crap?

We buy our children shit so that they might take a break
From messing with our shit

This is the true beauty of Christmas
The kids are stuck in the house all holiday
And most of the winter
So we buy them distraction
That might afford us some fantasy
Of still having our own lives

There are adult toys too
Of course
Cars we like to wear more than drive
Shiny little rocks that cost more than a year of college
We’re grown up
Right?

Don Arrup
Satire1