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Famous Off The Shelf Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brautigan, Richard
...ves to her body. I could tell you about her ass. We went
into the kitchen.
She took a jar of instant coffee off the shelf and put it on the table. She placed a
cup next to it, and a spoon. I looked at them. She put a pan full of water on the stove
and turned the gas on under it.
All this time she did not say a word. Her clothes adjusted themselves to her body. I
won't. She left the kitchen.
Then she went down the stairs and outside ...Read more of this...



by Brautigan, Richard
.... With the old man dead, the trout figured it

was better to stay where they were.

 The mortar and pestle fell off the shelf and broke.

 The shack rotted away.

 And the weeds grew into the kale.

 Twenty years after Mr. Hayman's death, some fish and

game people were planting trout in the streams around there.

"Might as well put some here, " one of the men said.

"Sure, " the other one said.

 They dumped a can full of trout in the cree...Read more of this...

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