BRANDED
Who are you wearing?
Whose name’s on your shirt?
What’s on your label,
your purse, and your skirt?
Where did you buy that, and
where was it made?
Is it a knock-off?
How much have you paid?
Did you go shopping
or order by mail?
Visit an outlet store?
Find a good sale?
Did a designer
initial your dress?
Is that a Gucci?
Oh wait, let me guess!
What’s in your closet?
Did you pay enough?
Or did you just order
a bunch of cheap stuff?
Can you keep up with
her wardrobe, or mine?
Is yours generic,
or top of the line?
What does it say
on the soles of your shoes?
Do you insist on
the higher-priced booze?
Are your kids’ crayons
imported from France?
Do you have signatures
sewn on your pants?
Black Friday is here!
(so the ad-man demands) …
but can you imagine
a world without brands?
loristory 
I didn’t think at all about brands while on a long bike ride on the Rillito River path in Tucson 🚴🏻 Opt Outside!
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That would make sense!
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A world without brands? But how would I know what expensive stuff to buy? I would be lost at sea with no way to navigate my way through all of the piles of stuff that would look the same. And everybody involved in Marketing would have no jobs. We’ll have to pay them to get them to shovel through the piles of stuff to get to what we want 🙂 This made me smile Lori, I loved the line about getting crayons from France and signatures on pants 😀
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Thanks, David. I once did some editing work for an American musician who ordered his kids’ crayons from France. I just looked up French crayons and learned that the brand name “Crayola” comes from the French word for chalk, “craie.” See what blogging can teach us?
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