Best Shell Out Poems

While eating my morning bread,
A sudden impulse struck my head,
What if my mother doesn't get paid
No food; a voice from inside said
So simply that means you are dead….

What am I thinking; my first question to myself,
Why why why; a question interfered with my meal,
What about...

Continue reading...

01001101 01111001  01010110 01010010

yeah ...
they hijacked my mind, man -
hard-wired my neural synapses
said I'd be famous ...
(wealthy, certainly)
With MY financial issues
what choice, really?
Family no longer cares -
they gave up on me ages ago
(who can blame?)
so here I am … pfffffft!!

the sci-geeks wanted to see...

Continue reading...

The feature this month is swimwear,
An answer to many a prayer:
Men shell out good loot
To eye a swimsuit,
Preferring the babe was all bare....

Continue reading...

My bike was transportation; Mom didn’t drive
But sometimes I sped off on an adventure
To Telegraph Hill the miles were only five
Big sis and I made the ride a joint venture

What she didn’t know was the trek was uphill
Although one could coast nearly all the way...

Continue reading...

pump em’ full of roids 

don’t give a *****about baseball,
don’t care about basketball,
could give a **** about football,
could give a piss about the Olympics
& i wouldn’t watch the Tour de France if 
you paid me,
but i know one thing---
if i was one of these schmucks...

Continue reading...

A splatter of random color,
literally thrown on the canvas,
sold for two million dollars,
has it really come to this?
Somebody would shell out cash
for what is really a paint spill?
Perhaps they really ‘get it,’
I’m thankful that I don’t.

A naked man with a bear
painted upon his chest,
stands stock-still...

Continue reading...

now…what does a “pastor” do?
hmmm…a “pastor” reads to a flock of sheep from a work of
fiction, much like a mother might read to a small child from a
storybook &
when the eyes wide with belief begin to tear,
those swimming in idiocy shell out their hard earned...

Continue reading...

Just off Ohio, following the wind,
Past the China-man restaurant
Where fools shell out
After cooking their own food,
There’s a place,
A place that waste
Three thousand square-feet
Of windy Chicago,
A place Mexico would not
Call compañero de armas.
In my world
Poverty is impetus
That chiseled man.
It is hard
To stomach Chilangos
With second-rated 
Refried bean...

Continue reading...

Here I am
Grounded on earth
And, my fate
Hangs in the stars

My future 
Is predicted by people
Who are unsure
Of their own fate

For them,
It is profitable business—
They have absolutely
Nothing at stake

All they have to do 
Is to play with my anxiety
And, I am sure 
To shell out nickels

The...

Continue reading...

the groveler 

I.  finding out that the other party has in fact stopped the affection
finding out that the other party has found interest in another one of the over 7 billion humans living, breathing, conversating, courting, ****ing &
finding out that the other party has...

Continue reading...

DNA to the Rescue

By Elton Camp

Way back in the days when I was young
A man accused of “bastardy” was hung

Not that rope was put around his neck
But the girl was always believed, by heck

Money, the guy might as well shell out
He was thought guilty without...

Continue reading...

on the reference of a 
friend who used to be
close, s/he asks the cartomancer 
to come to the house---
as this is not a privilege
often granted to those whose cards
are to be read (so the “reader”
claims), extra funds are required
to lure her in & 
the sap...

Continue reading...

Apartments are expensive
With an extra monthly fee
For maintenance, which I can
Understand, to a degree.

But in an advertisement
For a condo that’s for sale,
A factor was included
That would make some people bail.

Along with monthly maintenance,
The purchasers would pay
Nine hundred for utilities
But, more outrageous, they

Would have to shell...

Continue reading...

sucks to be a kid 
on a hurricane halloween,
where putting on the
costume to trick or treat
really doesn’t make much
sense, because along with the
whole getup,
you got to fit your little self into
some waders or rain boots at the
least &
slosh through the ****
with an angry parent or
some...

Continue reading...

When I take women out on dates, I treat them like equals and they get mad.
I make them pay for their dinners and movie tickets and they think that is bad.
If they want to be treated like equals, they'd damn well better pay.
They expect me...

Continue reading...