The Bizarre Traveling Bazaar

A tea salesman sells his wares and describes to his customers how he obtained the products.

Once you bother to pay attention I will tell you who I am
I'm a very trusty salesman of a cultured, landed fam'
I travel 'round the country selling bits of prized bazaar
I've shaken hands with many folk from peasants to the tsar

I've got a slight connection with the affluents o'er you
Not too many differences I notice 'tween the very two.
I've started out this morning as early as early as I could
My darling niece and wise accountant told me that I should

So here I am to sell you all the goods that you should lack
They were sold to me from China in a bug infested sack
But not to worry 'cause it's snowy should've kill'd the fleas
And be lucky that the tea you buy s'not all been in the seas

Now please forgive me as I inform you that I always sneeze
The scent of the enchanting tea is guided by the breeze
Forty pounds per sack it costs me, indeed a lower cost
I'm not entirely certain of the sum when it was lost

Buying tea is family tradition it's been with us for years
So trust me when I tell you that the water isn't tears
Sugar will cost you extra because it's harder to obtain
It takes a profound intellectual to bargain with the brain

So worry not and enjoy the lot as it's improbable it will rain

Reviews

[hcarson]

loved this, a good flow to the words and humerous and sooo very true of things we truely don't need but buy for god knows what reason lol top marks :)