Best Buy Food Poems

Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And...

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Walking on the streets out there
With the little baggage they own,
They walk everywhere
With no where to call home

They are homeless
Who struggles every day
For food and...

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You all walk past me and you don't bat an eye,
Not even when you can see the pain in my cry,
You tar me with the...

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The Bombay Grocery (Indian)- North Carolina

Shyam*, finds cat food at special rate near the door.
Goes to check out to manager of the grocery store
Doubting manager...

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Penny for the guy

C’mon mister give us a penny for the guy
This little ragamuffin asked with sad eyes brimming
Need the money to buy food she...

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Money can buy,
        A diamond ring.
            ...

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Madras

Hotel lobbies, hotel bars
Hotel rooms, air conditioned cars
City sights and sounds and smells
A smile, a frown, a shout impels
The thoughts within to exude
And express themselves...

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The best things in life are free!
Someone is just got to be kidding me,
Because the best thing in winter is heat;
But, just try to get...

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Dear Santa:  Hello to you, Mrs. Claus and all the elves.
I hope there are lots of toys for children upon your shelves.
As you can...

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Athletes jog on Victory Field,
I join them to test my endurance,
but underneath the bleachers kids smoke weed;
are these the bright young men of our future,
who...

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"Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is...

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Christmas comes around once every year 
Feeling of happiness, toasting good cheer
What does it now mean? I ask myself
Material things replacing god's wealth?.

What about people...

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Many churches today 
have a food pantry that never
had a pantry before.

I attend a church like that.
Some folks are well-fixed, 
others poor, most betwixt.

Some had...

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Fed Up (with the Shutdown)



Go to work everyday,
but I don’t get paid
MasterCard creditor chain letters
said I was a New America
	    debt slave

Was...

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Christmas at Sea. 

Once I was kicked by a mule, as I was remonstrating, 
a dog interfered and bit my ankle. There is something 
deeply...

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