The stores overheated, by a plethora of peeps
(people, for the younger crowd:)
Bruised and battered shoppers, making financial leaps
Credit cards overloaded, checkbook, over drawn
Buyin all those lights, inflatables, for the house and the lawn
Presents piled high, neath the Tree
Even for the relatives, that we hardly ever see
Come the day, observe, their faces all alight
For we know, the bills, will do far more than bite
Usury a term they use, for predatory banks
Santa Claus' the one, all of us will curse, and yes, thank!