Best Discount Store Poems

(Written to the rhythm of "The Things that I Love", if you want to sing along!)

Eating black licorice and cake with thick frosting!
Not doing so many things too exhausting.
Trying out ice creams in flavors galore!
I’m always doing the things I adore.

Viewing good dramas that make...

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I’m thinking of the letter “B”
    So close and yet so far
It seems a bit unfair to me
     Let’s stop, reset the bar

We’ve cast the “B” to status, poor
     With quality less pleasing
Like something...

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As I awoke to a brand-new day
I asked Him to direct my path
To protect and guide, lest I should fall
And keep me free, from grief and wrath

In haste, I departed on an errand
Forgot -  if I, had locked the door
Returned and found that all...

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Happily piling in,
The discount store games begin
tis the season to be jolly but
Dont ****ing touch me!-
beneath the holly
I dont know where that mouths been
and look at those clothes!
thrift store threads, what hideous throws!
Clank clonk clank, duh
dribbling dance, but i wont get on the dance floor...

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As soon as I stepped through the doors of the mall
I ran into two old friends John and Paul
They were with two girls the first named Karen
And I think the other girl was named Sharon

I went to the supermarket to get an Iced Coffee
In the...

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Making my way through the Dollar General hoping to get an economy pack of Thank You cards to send out to all the people who had just given me expensive gifts  

(Not really; I was there for cheap cosmetics), 

All I could smell was...

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You Won’t Believe Who I Saw at Target

By Elton Camp

I was surprised at who I thought that I did spy
But caught her only out of the corner of my eye

Even with a baseball cap and such dark glasses
I thought, “For the First Lady that easily...

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Black Friday zooms:
A magic poise,
A lusty room,
A greedy choice.


The heat is on:
Buy more and more,
Cheap discount store,
Odd stocks galore!


Wants now emerge:
Watch crazy surge,
Such a mad purge,
That buying urge.


Stores with such stocks:
Crowds push and block,
In mad gridlock,
For bargains flock.


Just for a day:
Cash promptly pays,
For things to...

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The children called Damian into
The foyer to inspect their
Achievement. Damian came
Down the staircase and looked
Around. Pleased with the
Organization skills of his
Offspring, he Loosened his 
Belt. And asked, "what do you
Think of yourselves, you think
You did a good job? 
Leave it up to Amadeus to say
"We...

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All of a sudden, or not at all.

Love does not roll in with the tide.
Love is calculated, and random.
A steady roller coaster best strap in for the ride.
There is no cushion for the fall from grace on the losing side.

Love is a fire, forging diamonds.
There...

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Multi Billionaires don't know your life. 
And have never had to go without.
Decide whether to feed the kids or pay the rent.
Do a job that they really hate.
Clean damp from the walls and mice from their shed.
shop in a discount store or buy the cheapest...

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i passed by a guy
just the other day
in his hand he held
a sign that read
just hungry
i felt the need to ask my peers
for permission
as i labeled myself
a reborn christian
but i removed this thought from my head
not remembering the man
i should have fed

i walked through the...

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THEN the skies bellowed a frothy glitter    and  d o w n  became up   &
sideways turned horizontally truthful
said the vegan Aardvark.

   THE Policeman chewed his m0uth-
side and a Red Ant crawled out from his nostril damn-us...

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Yearning to dance, he went
to a discount store with
very little money to spend. 
He needed new old shoes.

He’d been saving to buy beer
that evening, and aftershave,
and a ten dollar ticket
to a singles’ dance.

Loneliness would sometimes
crowd out the need for food,
but he couldn’t dance without
leather soled...

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I've seen my childhood memories
In broad daylight come and go
What ones didn't fade away
Away they were thrown

From Granddaddy's Carolina farm 
To the old country store
As progress keeps on moving on
While opening and slamming doors 

What used to be roaming free
Home on the range
Is now a...

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