The Last Daze of Summer

8/18/13: Bak-2-Skool Season at the Dollar Store, at the Walmart; "Dying Queen's New Agony", and "What it takes to be Kim Kardashian"  the tabloids scream at the check-out line...Swarms of whiny little voices all so serious about the notebooks, the glueStix, the shiny feathered pens, the crayons, the color pencils...Serious little hands clutch xeroxed supply lists: 4, 2" binders, 8 notebooks (one Subject) must be 2 red, 2 blue, 2 green, and 2 purple...looseleaf paper 2 paks, crayons 20 color set, one protractor, post-it notes pr as the younglings call 'em "Sticky Notes" (Teachers require sticky notes to use in "Common Core" reading activities: in real life kidz want sticky notes for "Kick Me" signs to stick on friends' backs). Pencil Case, Hand Sanitizer (cuz bacteria is icky and must be eradicated at any cost). Serious Moms; "No put down the Smurfs II: Revenge  of the Sith folder. Itz 5 bux and two-pocket folders are a penny at the Office Despot!!!" Can we...Can we...OH, Can we just buy this? It's shiny and feathered and oh so cute, and it writes and erases, it spins and weeps....Can we...Can we...oh pleeeease!" Must have Bak-2-Skool item Justin Bieber electronik pop giggle head stool softener. With a genuine collectors upload to your 4 Gee SmartPhone... Or sentient cookies riding in a red car convertable a big pink human hand reaches in to eat one. And you see all the Halloween Candy already out in bright orange boxes.