In every city, town or village
there are shops selling bland, fatty doughnuts
no one really needs,
they are unhealthy
and make you fat.
Yet they are good for the economy,
for if consumers wake up and realise
that they are eating muck
and stop buying that filthy stuff,
there will be mass lay offs,
followed by revolution, social equality
and a pair of brown boots
once a year for each one of us,
except our leaders who get to wear black shoes.
To avoid this,
we have to buy a bag of doughnuts every day
and feed them to the ducks in the park
which in turn will grow fat and plentiful,
be culled and sold at the local supermarket
and thus we’ll all have a choice,
except the sick, old and stupid.