The Fast Moving Consumer Goods Man by Les Bush

5 April 2013

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FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) is the name,

filling shelves is my game.

Supermarket shelves is what I fill.

Large or small, shallow or deep, or the AOV; why?

I am the "Fast Moving Consumer Goods" Man.

I understand when you block the aisle,

converse at length about Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice;

and little baby, Moses. A princess found him in the lillies,

so you hear. Amazing!

"Am I in your way?", you might ask.

"Oh, no, I am here to serve."

I am the "Fast Moving Consumer Goods" Man.

Little do they know, little do they realise, little do they care;

within these aisles, those carefully crafted displays, I lurk;

a snake, slumbering within, a mind deep and dark, delicious and seditious;

eyes that observe, record, and lay bare human behaviour.

"Is it fresh", prod, prod; "one has to be SO careful these days",

prod, prod, shuffle, shuffle, examine with analytical view;

focus their most careful efforts on the budget bread.

"Buy it", I intone, to myself. Who am I?

Tolerant, patient and benign;

I am the "Fast Moving Consumer Goods" Man.

The next time you go shopping,

wherever you might be; stop and wonder,

without people like me, the shelves would be empty;

without people like me, your life would be cast asunder.

I am the "Fast Moving Consumer Goods" Man.

Les Bush

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