Give me one experience – dazzling golden

Give me something beyond the jargon.

Something concrete, something tangible

Rejuvenating and entirely plausible.

Spacious interiors! Scintillating performance!

Climate control, GPS, Reverse Assist, and Bluetooth,

Genuine leather, Auto-Driver, and Bose surround sound

Of cosseting material comforts; a preponderance.

WAP, GPRS, streaming videos, e-mail on demand,

Will the dulcet charms budding in the heart never cease to enthrall?

Tantalizing luring thy sting be, Lucre.

Devouring gluttonous thou mak’st man.

Wheedling, voracious, and utterly capricious.

Of the stainless existence,

Of ethics, integrity, and abstinence,

Dignity and love for labor,

Are swamped by thy insistent clamor

For wanton satisfaction,

Corrupt usurping titillation!

Is there a total transcending

A complete U-turning,

A liberation from the vice of hoarding?

Are we destined to spineless shepherding?

Give me a stringed fiddle,

Let the soul flow

With alternate foot tapping,

With accompanying drone notes,

And heavy accents of “Shuffle.”

Sing with me, clap, jig, and weep a tear

At the gentle ballad reminiscent of the yester year.

Rise my soul,

Above menial mentality

Purge thyself of trivia and banality.

Make way,

Here I come Posterity!!