Shopping Poems

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the
streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.

In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit
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Here, this smudge of blood,
Of a tender boy of eleven,
Soaked thru the tarmac,
Yet to be dried, still wet and warm!
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'Attention please! Attention please!
Don't dare to talk! Don't dare to sneeze!
Don't doze or daydream! Stay awake!
Your health, your very life's a ...
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Though my mother was already two years dead
Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas,
put hot water bottles her side of the bed
and still went to renew her transport pass.
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Five pounds fifty in change, exactly,
a library card on its date of expiry.

A postcard stamped,
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They let the children out of school too early.
I left the Christmas shopping till too late.
Each day we had a holiday excursion,
Which gave us the entire week to wait in line for
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Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb
Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
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yes, they begin out in a willow, I think
the starch mountains begin out in the willow
and keep right on going without regard for
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(This is a composition in Pilipino Language the first one I did, the only one, and hope some of the Filipinos will get this funny poem in this site. The poem is updated with English translation)


Noong taong otsenta dekada
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Snow, falling thick and white, along the village street,
People struggling through the drifts, their shopping to complete,
Kids dragging sledges, excitement fills their minds,
Rolling a giant snowball, great, cos this is snow that binds.
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1.

The dark socket of the year
the pit, the cave where the sun lies down
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From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning,
     please come flying.
In a cloud of fiery pale chemicals,
     please come flying,
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Everything is fair in love and war,
Prove your intelligence and excellence at par,
Even if no means to ride in car,
Entertain friends in shopping and visits to bar,
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A pound in the slot and out comes the chain,
It's Saturday supermarket shopping again,
And so I've obtained my large wire trolley,
And when shopping, you certainly need loads of lolly!
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To wed, or not to wed; that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The bills and house rent of a wedded fortune,
Or to say "nit" when she proposes,
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Lynzie Anne Mc Kenzie was a very creative girl,
She made a macaroni necklace for her teacher Mrs. Pearl.
'It's the dumbest gift I've seen! ' Laughed little Tony Maloney,
'Nobody wants a necklace made from macaroni! '
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She is the one
who will notice
that the first snapdragon
of Spring
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Blink, blink. HOSPITAL. SILENCE.
Ten days old, carried in the front door in his
mother's arms, first thing he heard was
Bobby Dazzler on Channel 7:
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If I was President
The first thing I would do
is call Mumia Abu-Jamal.
No,
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Fashion girls,
Mall visitors,
Shopping mall visitors,
Marketing girls,
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Every night at 8 o'clock the busy shopping centre would close
All the bright neon shop lights would be turned off
All the shop doors would be securely locked
Twelve hours of darkness to behold the shopping centre
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Curb side shopping,
Oh what fun for the artist in me!

Curb side shopping
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There are times when I go shopping
I buy things, normally, would not do.
But, yet, there are times I go shopping,
I do buy things especially, just for you.
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Those old high street stores,
Have become a dying trade,
Replaced by online shopping,
Big companies have it made,
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borders closures meant no travel no leaving houses
shopping traditional escape techniques restrictions
internet shopping internet entertainment rapid booms
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The Walmart employees finally had enough of Roberts.
He loved to ride around the store in a motorized shopping cart.
When there was nothing wrong with him.
One employee told him to stop using the cart.
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Watching as people go shopping, buying Christmas gifts for family
and friends, happy and smiling, greeting everyone in a happy mood.

Enjoying doing their Christmas shopping, buying quite a lot, for-
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Today, it's the first time in six weeks
We left home for grocery shopping.
We traveled together to the parking
Then we departed inside the building.
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Newly weds,
My Thailand wife and I
Back in the United States.
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