Elegy for Private Property

 A moment of silence for Macy's

This broken shell of a luxury store

On the once Magnificent Mile

The windows are shattered

The clothing racks ransacked

The lavish apparel apparently ravished

And broken glass down every aisle

A moment of silence for Gucci

Our dearly beloved brand now so defiled

An ave for Louis Vuitton

Whose purses went rolling

Like heads of French monarchs

A requiem for Nordstrom whose shoes have been torn from

The shelves and are sadly all gone

A moment of silence for Apple

Whose iPhones and Macbooks were savagely plundered

In one night of chaos and sin

And Best Buy, and Walgreens

And even poor Potbelly's

And Block 37 and 7-11

All victims of senseless break-ins

Of course these were criminal actions

And we will indict and convict and lock up

These hoodlums who dared to transgress

Look, here are the pieces

Of an ATM, broken,

And all the cash registers seem to be stolen

So clearly this wasn't protest

Although, there is some speculation

That some of these high-end shops may have been targeted

Like some kind of raid on the rich

But that doesn't matter

(Much like the young man

Who may or may not have been shot by police)

Now a prayer for Abercrombie and Fitch...