Consider the Source

I don’t think about what I can’t see,

it don’t count if it ain’t staring at me.

Little choices I cannot recall,

get it quick or not at all.

Every bargain has a hidden cost:

what was saved? what was lost?

Forty color-ways and free returns:

Where’s it made? What’d they earn?

Is it enough to add to cart

with buyer’s remorse?

Well if you don’t know where to start,

consider the source.

What becomes of what I throw away?

Broken cord, takeout tray,

leaky battery and shattered screen,

spilling ink I can’t clean.

Is it too much to be undone,

too late to change course?

Before condemning anyone,

Consider the source.

I set the table for an easy meal,

I don’t mind what I can’t feel:

Tired turkey in a crowded cage,

he can’t peck, he can’t rage.

Little choices and the way they spread,

Who must starve so we’d be fed?

I don’t think about what I can’t see,

but now that bird won’t stop staring at me.

I tap my heart before I dine,

but quickly divorce

from all your agony down the line,

and all I endorse.

Is it enough to add to cart

with buyer’s remorse?

Well if you don’t know where to start,

consider the source.