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Happy Discount Candy Day

by Chuck Parker

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Get yourself ready for the *real* holiday worth waiting for....February 15, when you can stock up on discount chocolate to salve your weary, heartbroken soul.

Pay what you want!

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the cardboard signage limp and sagging
pink and red and white
it's tattered and bedraggled
it's been up since new years' night

the bags of sweetness stacked in piles
barely organized, ad-hoc
it's february fifteenth
we've got shamrocks here to stock!

Happy discount candy day
eat until your stomach aches!
Chocolate will taste the same
no matter what it's shape!

The hearts and flowers taunting you
for weeks about your loneliness
today you reap the spoils of
overstocked wholesale largess

this weekend you can sit at home
watching weepy DVDs
wrapped up in your blanket warm
red wine and diabetes

Happy discount candy day
eat until your stomach aches!
Chocolate will taste the same
no matter what it's shape!

Valentine's day is manufactured
made to feed our guilt and stress
The church's Feast of Saints valentine
celebrates some priests martyred to death
There's no way that we can live up
to the storybook romance exemplar
but there's no reason that we can't
draw solace in cheap pink wrapped candy hearts!

Sure, you're alone without a partner
to share this retail holiday
we all know it's manufactured
still hurts, though even if cliche

the yellow half-off signage does
offer you some small sweet relief
as you fill your shopping cart
the store is watching profits flee


Happy discount candy day
eat until your stomach aches!
Chocolate will taste the same
no matter what it's shape!

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released February 5, 2021
everything by Chuck

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Chuck Parker Virginia

A performer for more than 35 years, Chuck has filled many musical roles: heavy metal guitarist, singer/songwriter, jazz sideman, open mic host, filk circle regular, and World’s Okayest Bassist™.

A regular on the con circuit, find him at open mics and backing up the Blibbering Humdingers!
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