Silence is Golden

rhyming quatrains

 

 

 

 

Silence is golden

 

It seems that everywhere I go

 pop music strikes me like a blow.

Its not that I’m a philistine.

I find some music is divine.

 

But I prefer it soft and low

classics are the best I know.

To put me in a mellow mood.

I find loud pop songs rather crude.

 

But Muzak really gets my goat.

A quiet store would get my vote.

I can browse without background noise.

 That wretched Muzak just annoys

 

 me makes me lose my train of thought.

So what I need remains unbought.

 I much prefer to do without.

 I find the exit and rush out.

 

Why do the merchants think we need

 music til our eardrums bleed.

I think that people would spend more

 if they could find a silent store.

 

The kind of shop our parents knew

 where they were pleases to wait on you

 and glad to pass the time of day

in the good old fashioned way.

 

Instead of them expecting you.

To serve yourself and listen to

 pop music some computer chose.

The price of progress I suppose.

 

19-Mar-08

Reviews

[Tally]

Totally agree, some places you go just blast you out. Nicely written.

[Ani Ashford]

Oh my! I know just how you feel. Well done.