The Unhappy Consumer

Strip the garland from the garbage

and the tinsel from the trash.

Take the ribbon off the rubbish

and adornment from the ash.

Lose the spangles from the sewage

 and what's gilded from the grime.

Drop the perfume from what's putrid

and the sequins from the slime.

What you're left with has no value

What you're left with has no worth.

An emporium of emptiness

A bane upon this earth.

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Tchotchkes and knickknacks,

gewgaws and gimcrack;

All we want is some 

value from our jack, Jack.

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Fast food tastes like a witch's brew;
Bat and frog and lizard stew.

Summed up by some Weird Sisters jingle:

Single, single, moil and mingle;
This mess tastes like that stuff on a shingle.