Shopping Binge Pusher Blues I just got home From a blowout Shopping binge I’ll cringe When I total the bill Looking uphill As I realize I overindulged In credit card Lines A lot like coke Or a shot of heroin To get the fix That is the thrill Of buying almost everything you want. On a given moment. It all seemed so right. The might Of the sales ring. Let’s see.    Levi’s 501 Jeans For my ass Cool Ray Ban’s that looked So right on my face. A Leather watch that Made my eyes pop as I Saw it on my wrist. Kissed By my new girl as I Imagined her digging My new look. Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam And Bob Dylan CD’s Too New Converse All-Stars Black Just had to have Mental salve And the materialist Dragons Breathed fire The capitalist  (Drug) Pusher Machines Reeling us in with marketing And advertising Schemes Appealing to Dreams singing brand names At us to Make us feel Hip As the Drip of the morphine Needle In our arm numbs us From blaring Alarms We don’t want to hear.