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Famous Extras Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...rine.
I’m the North’s excuse for novelty
and the South’s deleted scene.

I’m the one who takes his lunch break
with the extras and the grips.
I’m the funny liquorice coils of hair
and the funny looking lips.

I’m the white wide eyes and pearly teeth.
I’m the jet black skin that shines.
I’m the soft-shoe shuffling Uncle Tom
for your nickels and your dimes.

I’m the Alabami Mammy
for a state I’ve never seen.
I’m the bona fide Minstrel Man
whose blackface won’t wash clean.

I’m ...Read more of this...
by Lindley, John



...ay he meet with many a friend --
 Shrewd shadows, lingering long unseen
 Among us when "God save the Queen"
Shows even "extras" have an end.

And, when we leave the heated room,
 And, when at four the lights expire,
 The crew shall gather round the fire
And mock our laughter in the gloom;

Talk as we talked, and they ere death --
 Flirt wanly, dance in ghostly-wise,
 With ghosts of tunes for melodies,
And vanish at the morning's breath....Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard
...long hair falls on
your belly.
it's not the fucking and sucking
alone that reaches into a man
and softens him, it's the extras,
it's all the extras.
now it's raining tonight
and there's nobody
they are elsewhere
examining things
in new bedrooms
in new moods
or maybe in old
bedrooms.
anyhow, it's raining tonight,
on hell of a dashing, pouring
rain....
very little to do.
I've read the newspaper
paid the gas bill
the electric co.
the phone bill.
it keeps raining.
they soften a m...Read more of this...
by Bukowski, Charles

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