The Masquerade

The supermarket masquerades  
as parades of stores on high streets,  
wherein shop keepers ply their trades  
in supermarket masquerade,  
 
Where newsagents and florist played
by assistants and so discrete,
one thinks ' shop-keepers ' portrayed
in supermarket masquerade.

And the butcher with their sharp blades
pretends they've prepared cuts of meat,  
they are merely playing  charades
of destroyed shops on high-streets. 
   
And I have seen how these degrade  
and make desert of the high street,  
consuming art nouveau arcades  
and I have seen how these degrade  
   
with the going down of their shades  
concrete jungles rise where drunkards meet,  
and I have seen how these degrade    
and make desert of the high street.  
   
The supermarket masquerade  
of parade of stores on high streets,  
an awful fraudulent charade  
this supermarket masquerade,  
   
of high street shopping parades,  
play soothing music to make sweet    
the supermarket masquerade  
of destroy, destroy, don't compete...