Poetry @ Christmas ~ Singapore Style

21st December 2005, Singapore - With 4 days to Christmas, editor of The NewsStan(d) turns poet and pokes fun at the season of merriment and glee. Oh what fun it is to write!

(To be sung to the tune of "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night")
While people throng the malls by night,
all crowded down in town,
the traffic jams they cause on roads,
Cause detours all around,
Cause detours all around.

And when you find a parking lot,
Thinking that you've had it sort.
A car from nowhere vrooms right in.
And you slam your breaks and snort.
To think you had a plot!

You're in the mall, "Where's the lift?!" you yell.
When it finally finds your floor,
The doors they open and what a boar
It's stuffed with shoppers lor.
It's stuffed with shoppers lor.

When you've found your gifts, sheer delight it is,
But there's much much more than this.
You have got to swipe or key your pin
But to do that, queue first please.
To pay you've to queue first please.

When you join the queue with both hands full,
And it's snaking all around.
Not only is there elbow room,
It's nudging all around,
"Stop poking me!", you growl.

... To be continued....