Shopkeepers, Shop Seekers and God Keep Us!

'A nation full of shopkeepers' Napoleon said,
- but the shop 'seekers' who prop them all up,
and the cunning, media-drivers who feed pristine ideas daily to Pavlov's most willing dogs, get no mention at all.
Blind to the nature of the scraps thrown for us, we readily wolf them down.
Millions feel rejected as 'not good enough' for ready consumption by others.
- so they reach deep into a pocket to find absent cash for a brief moment of 'fickle acceptance.'
It keeps it all turning.
Even to the level of choosing a mate for life. May God Keep Us!