A BOX OF TRICKS
By
WHIM WHAM
The Advertising on Jee-vee Sings out its Messages to Me — Eat This, Drink That! Use our Shampoo! Jet out with Us, to Timbuctoo! Invest your Capital!.Or borrow— Credit today, and Debt tomorrow! Carpet your Home! —the Joneses’, floors Won’t be a shabby Patch on yours. Now is the Hour, for that new Car, Buy one of Ours, the Best by far!— Rust and Inflation eat away The Future, no Time like Today! All Kinds of Things which I regret I cannot buy—or not just yet. It seems, the Economy expects What private Common Sense rejects. The Ordinary Bloke keeps trying To keep the Cash-flow up by buying— His Ordinary Employer sells And gets the wages back—what Else? Labour—let’s think about it, Sir! Is Management’s Best Customer. Economists like Professor Rowling May find This faulty, disconsoling. When hungry Unions bark or bite, That Customer is seldom right, And who buys What—except a Fight? Meanwhile, the advertisers rave, Exhorting us to spend,’ or save, Or Both at once! I find “the Box” An audio-visual ParadoxBlinking and grinning on the Shelf, What does It really sellMtself!
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Press, 28 February 1981, Page 14
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