Famous Grocery Store Poems by Famous Poets

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Aner Clute

...man --
(It was Lucius Atherton).
But that was not really it at all.
Suppose a boy steals an apple
From the tray at the grocery store,
And they all begin to call him a thief,
The editor, minister, judge, and all the people --
"A thief," "a thief," "a thief," wherever he goes.
And he can't get work, and he can't get bread
Without stealing it, why, the boy will steal.
It's the way the people regard the theft of the apple
That makes the boy what he is....Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee


Earthworm

...Slim inquirer, while the old fathers sleep
you are reworking their soil, you have
a grocery store there down under the earth
and it is well stocked with broken wine bottles,
old cigars, old door knobs and earth,
that great brown flour that you kiss each day.
There are dark stars in the cool evening and
you fondle them like killer birds' beaks.
But what I want to know is why when small boys
dig you up for curiosity and cut you in half
why ea...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

Indignation Jones

...ough the days
Of my life.
No more you hear my footsteps in the morning,
Resounding on the hollow sidewalk,
Going to the grocery store for a little corn meal
And a nickel's worth of bacon....Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee

Part 9 of Trout Fishing in America

...ere were some garlic sausages and some bread sit-

ting in his wheelchair as if it were a display counter in a

strange grocery store.

 The baby ran down there and tried to make off with one of

his sausages.

 Trout Fishing in America Shorty was instantly alerted,

then he saw it was a baby and relaxed. He tried to coax her

to come over and sit on his legless lap. She hid behind his

wheelchair, staring past the metal at him, one of her hands

holding onto a wheel.

 "Come...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

Redbud Trail - Winter

...creek, I hope,
and I send a little prayer to them, too.



I take an apple from my pack,
bought at a Davis, California grocery store,
where the Patwin village Poo-tah-toi
once flourished. Children ran
and played, families grew, all gone now.
There is a little opening at the base
of a Valley Oak, I imagine that it is a doorway
to the Other World, and leave the apple,
a snack for whatever may find it,
a raccoon or deer, a lost spirit,
or maybe even The Great She.



You can cr...Read more of this...
by Jobe, James Lee


Richard

...ingly colored, 

so beautiful, in fact, that I've begun to scatter extra catfood 

to draw him back; we have become his grocery store.


I tell my wife that if he comes a 6th day, I'll give him a name, 

Richard; but he never comes again....Read more of this...
by Jobe, James Lee

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