Consumption

Many of the things I have been told to want
I have got.
Want them I do not.
Freedom has been offered on condition
That it is not used.
Freedom refused.
So I follow plastic carrots as others do -
Improved. New.
Pretend never to see the seams.
Buy from wizzened men who deal in dreams
And can supply, at a price
Slightly shop-soiled Paradise.