Nonchalant Shopper

Nonchalant Shopper

You try it on, so calm, so nonchalant
Then wander 'round, show what you've found to friends
The latest dress, a great success to flaunt
With taste like yours, you're teaching stores new trends.

When you come in, the sales clerks simply smile
A purse or shoes, what e'er they choose is shared
They cannot wait to show the latest style
With confidence that no expense is spared.

They'll never know, 'cause you don't show a trace
Of how the tension builds up when you shop.
The mounting hills of unpaid bills you face;
This crazy urge to spend and splurge must stop.

Obsession wins, the urge begins anew
So nonchalant, the stores you haunt, haunt you.



* Jazzed up Shakespearean sonnet style, in iambic pentameter with the form abab cdcd efef gg with the last two lines an epigrammatic close or twist on the early stanzas, but with an additional twist of the first two metric feet rhyming with the second two metric feet internally in every line.

Written for the Invalid Item , Prompt: nonchalant shopper