Famous Cheapskate Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Cheapskate poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous cheapskate poems. These examples illustrate what a famous cheapskate poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Bolt the door, mercy,
erase the number,
rip down the street sign,
what can it matter,
what can it matter to this cheapskate
who wants to own the past
that went out on a dead ship
and left me only with paper?
Not there.
I open my pocketbook,
as women do,
and fish swim back and forth
between the dollars and the lipstick.
I pick them out,
one by one
and throw them at the street signs,
and shoot my pocketbook
into the Charles River.
Next I pull the dream of...Read more of this...
by
Sexton, Anne
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