An Advertising Poem

Why Is It?

A man wakes in the morning after

sleeping on an ADVERTISED mattress,

under ADVERTISED sheets,

and in ADVERTISED pajamas.

He washes his hair with an ADVERTISED shampoo,

clean with an ADVERTISED soap,

shave with an ADVERTISED razor,

using ADVERTISED shaving cream,

and puts on ADVERTISED deoderant.

He pulls on ADVERTISED blue jeans,

an ADVERTISED shirt and ADVERTISED sneakers.

He'll drink ADVERTISED coffee after

his ADVERTISED orange juice, cereal and

toast (from his ADVERTISED toaster).

He will drive to work in an ADVERTISED car,

sit at an ADVERTISED computer,

in an ADVERTISED office chair,

and write with an ADVERTISED pen.

Yet this man hesitates to ADVERTISE,

saying that advertising

does not PAY.

Finally, when his UNADVERTISED business goes under,

he then ADVERTISES that it is FOR SALE.

Why Is It?