Thanksgiving can’t even have its time 

The Black Friday ads rush in and sound like wind chimes 

You need more things 

Don’t you know that happiness is in buying?

A $100,000 Lexus or some minute crap from a craft store 

Shoes! Vintage clothes, toys galore!

Or what about a mattress

A fake cactus?

Really, anything you can think of – just buy it!

Do you need it? Ah, don’t even deny it

Just buy, spend, buy!

Don’t think twice about what happens to all that stuff when you die

Or even when you’re alive

We’re got storage units for all the stuff

Just keep on buying because you can never have enough

I gotta get away from it 

Because despite all the spending, happiness isn’t abundant

It’s as fleeting as all our stuff 

As transient as us 

And what about the planet?

Wouldn’t we all be better off if thanksgiving were rampant