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Famous Department Store Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Department Store poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous department store poems. These examples illustrate what a famous department store poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Ginsberg, Allen
...ind fir trees, larks twitter, sparrows cheep cheep cheep
 cheep cheep.

 July 1983


Caught shoplifting ran out the department store at sunrise and woke up.

 August 1983...Read more of this...



by Brautigan, Richard
...the mountains, and drove up into the

dawn.

 The light behind the trees was like going into a gradual

and strange department store.

 "That was a good-looking girl last night, " he said.

"Yeah, "I said. "You did all right. "

"If the shoe fits....." he said.

 Owl Snuff Creek was just a small creek, only a few miles

long, but there were some nice trout in it. We got out of the

car and walked a quarter of a mile down the mou...Read more of this...

by Sandburg, Carl
...night watch on a sleeping typhoid patient … only a clock to talk to … lonesome.
Woman selling gloves … bargain day department store … furious crazy-work of many hands slipping in and out of gloves … lonesome....Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...glee - 
One might fare worse than a Christmas tree.

"So they stood me up with a hundred more
In the blaze of a big department store;
But I thought of the forest dark and still,
And the dew and the snow and the heat and the chill,
And the soft chinook and the summer breeze,
And the dappled deer and the birds and the bees...
I was so homesick I wanted to cry,
But patient I waited for someone to buy.
And some said 'Too big,' and some 'Too small,'
And some pa...Read more of this...

by Sandburg, Carl
...with them by giving them mansions in
the skies after they're dead and the worms have
eaten 'em.
You tell $6 a week department store girls all they need
is Jesus; you take a steel trust wop, dead without
having lived, gray and shrunken at forty years of
age, and you tell him to look at Jesus on the cross
and he'll be all right.
You tell poor people they don't need any more money
on pay day and even if it's fierce to be out of a job,
Jesus'll fix that up all right, all...Read more of this...



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