Best Fortune Cookie Poems

Don't rip your heart open too deep
(All they'll see are the valves and the veins)
Don't puke out your guts in one heap
(All they'll smell is the rotten Chow Mein)

Footnote: I decided to enter this as my worst poem because it really stinks and makes me...

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I know someone who jots down short poetry.
Now she puts what she writes inside a fortune cookie.
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I ate a fortune cookie with the paper in it 
I am pretty sure that the fortune 
will come through...

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I'm breaking it open to take a lookee.
What does it say inside my fortune cookie?...

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The Fortune Cookie
By Rick Rucker

On the way home last night,
I thought that I would grab a bite,

Instead of the food I usually eat,
I thought that Chinese would be a treat,

There were things on the net to find out about,
So, I decided to get the food...

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losing dire hope

about the fire in your horoscope

walking a tight rope

working hard not to be broke

but what they pay you
is a bad head squeezing joke

but don't lose hope

don't drop the soap

maybe do a little dope

and definitely don't
hang yourself with a rope

use rhyme to entertain
the mental...

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agonizingly dutifully didst wait
to distract anticipatory anxiety,
(analogous to an expectant father)
while protracted procedure promised
nothing short of a millennium

whereby echoing thru the corridors of time
olly olly gluten free ranging NON GMO, oxen
oiled lubricated cloven hoof
nsync cup aided toot tune to clacking choppers

activated after this chap dialed...

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imprints of a rose
still on yesterday's wine glass
her ruby red lips...

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A Boring Day at the Fortune Cookie Factory

By Elton Camp

Wei Lee had been inserting inane messages all day
“Things are to go very well,” they often would say

But one main thing ultimately got him into a rage
He got really fed up being paid sweat shop wage

Finally,...

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Expectations are like dolphins
Singing gleefully through the waves.
Life's lottery calls your number
As you wait there by the bay.
Purple sunset's majesty
Speaks of a celebration soon to come.
Believing's half the battle
When the paper says you've won....

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Sunday evening, suburban New York,
we ate at the corner Chinese restaurant,
its fish tank hypnotic, the smiling 

welcome from the Chinese woman 
caressing menus to her chest, 
who led us to the booth which stuck 

to my legs as I slid across to my 
designated spot....

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Tonight my sweetheart shook his head

                              As fortune cookie note was read

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The fortune cookie with it's lovely shape
                     the fortune cookie I  think smells great.
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sterile dough kneaded
crisped dreams coated with sugar
manufactured hope...

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Just a little note to say
We had Chinese for a day
I opened a Fortune Cookie 
Just for Princess the rookie

It said the worst part of your life is behind you.....

Today I opened another for her..

Words spoken in kindness brings friendship...

I opened one for me:

Most people...

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