Shrinkage and Inflation

Shrinkage and Inflation

Shrinkage and inflation

Really is affecting this great nation

As we trawl the shops

Variety and choice has sadly been lost

Politicians have forgot

About the ordinary people with a small budget

Necessities have increased

Inflation is the true beast!

Politicians, reduce it please!

The ordinary person on the street

Can no longer feast

The shrinkage is seen on my plate

I hope this is not the world’s fate

Our food now has a sour and bitter taste

As I eat my miniature food

The knives, forks and spoons

Have been reduced too!

I feel like Alice through the looking glass

Remembering my home

Instead of being a giant in a small rabbit hole

Or Dorothy tapping her red sparkling shoes

Asking to go home!

To the home she once remembered

Before the world changed

Instead of a world where politicians noses continue to grow

From the seeds they sow

Inflation grows

Shrinkage is a new, overused word

One we wish we’d never heard

Unfortunately, now a reality

As I eat my miniature fish and chips

As a teaspoon is now my cup of delicious tea

I have my seat at the Mad Hatters Tea Party

In this unreal reality

Will someone please catch me!

I tap my red shoes

I wish and I wish

Eyes shut tight

I want to return to a pre-covid world

Before the world’s imagination unfurled

Before madness took over the world

Toria

20/1/2023