A New Year’s Toast from Sickles Market

By Pat Dumas

December 30, 2011

(with Apologies to Robert Burns as sung to Auld Lang Syne)

                                                          

Should all your shopping be forgot

And never brought to mind?

Get the old things out, and new things in

For the sake of Auld Lang Syne.

 For Auld Lang Syne, my friend,

For all our Christmas sales;

We’ll take a cup of Crème Brulee

In the Sickles Market aisles.

And surely you will buy your pints

And I will then buy mine;

Of chicken soup and chili beans;

For Auld Lang Syne

For Auld Lang Syne my friend,

For cupcakes swirled with cream,

We’ll take a cup of Darjeeling Tea

And glom the samples clean.

We all have run about the store

In the days til Christmas time,

But now its time to save some bucks

On ornaments for Auld Lang Syne.

For Auld Lang Syne my dear

For a greenhouse full of green;

We’ll take a slice of sultry Brie

For the days of Auld Lang Syne

And there’s a hand my trusty friend,

To help you through your day;

‘Round pots of  herbs and orchids too,

And seeds for Auld Lang Syne

For Auld Lang Syne my dear

For those Chicken -Potted Pies,

We’ll smell the smell of Arugula too

For the love of Auld Lang Syne.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SICKLES MARKET!