Best Shop Poems

The gun seems gun-shy in this space;
where deer hides hang on rustic walls
and granddad-tick-tocks beat, instead
of hearts in hollowed skins. The gun

 a “trophy-bagger” in its rack, 
 a loud-mouth predator at rest,
 this motherless, brother-less thug
 perceives no pity-pangs... the gun

now quiet, buckshot empty,...

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I met her  in a pawn shop on a warm summer night
When running from the rubble of  my shattered life
To sell a broken dream that would never come true
An engagement ring to pay for the rent that was due

There she lay sleeping in...

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My man was old and battered and was destined for the scrap heap
He’d failed his annual MOT as his many defects ran far too deep
His motor was still running but he had an intermittent fault
He’d nod off when we were making love – (I’d feel...

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MALT SHOP

I’d been in the place -
The usual booths    lots of them
And a soda fountain –
But not right after school

Not that I’m such a flaming intellectual
But the bookish didn’t hang out there
And then
Some of us had jobs

No    It was...

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THE MALT SHOP

I would wager every school has a no-touch clan -
Four or five debs who really know how to play
And they share company only with those coolest
      studs of the day

Money, looks and politics are basic to the royal
...

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When I shop for an automobile,
I don’t worry much about speed.
Good mileage per gallon I want.
A van or a truck I don’t need!

So I guess if shopped for a spouse
the way that I shop for a car,
that means that my man wouldn’t need
much fuel, but...

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The poem is in conjunction with the video
Halloween Night



Enter the perfume curiosity shop
For the inquisitive 
All perfume smells entwine
The aroma wakens the mind
Slowly binding into a smell to recollect 
Take a swish before slumber
Don’t awaken as I enter
Cast a spell over your body
Pour you into...

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I found myself in the old curiosity shop

Looking for something strange and different

The owner said how about Schrodingers cat

I said did not curiosity kill that?

He said its a paradox unknown

Alive or dead its something you can still own

I said no.

He said how about a spider...

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It sat with double doors propped open
inviting the poor, the sad, the broken
Its dusty shelves stuffed and sated
with objects – some fresh, others dated

I carried my dreams with heavy arms
formerly dazzling magical charms
Now in tattered cardboard boxes
a life in unresolved paradoxes

Prized possessions, cherished memories
adored as...

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they're in the work places
and stores downtown...
silent and quiet
blank faces
private
in groups...
they express
themselves all
freely the same
and...me not feeling
time stealing
from them
thought...
"aliens"...
the years have cleared
the unfamiliar scene
and now...i'm what had been all along...
alien...in an alien world...
now with access only to the relevant
universal intellect continuum
and this...'this invention' enables
craftsmen of...

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Life continues here
on the Lower East Side 
   Tea is steadily 
improving my day 
   Doesn't it sometimes seem
that tea is" where its at "
Perhaps one day 
   I will switch back to coffee 
"the hard stuff"
  But...

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How to Find the Shop
A whispered map for the bold, the broken, and the slightly curious.

--A cryptic guide for those who seek the odd, the magical, and the mildly cursed.
Read at your own risk.
Side effects may include wonder, confusion, and spontaneous teleportation.

It won't be there...

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lit up with the power to attract and excite
and framed by a window of the toy shop that night
a miniature world of trains, bridges and hills
took my mind off the cold from the late autumn chills.

there were signals that moved and tables that turned
and lights...

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This Time Last Month

A customer
Opens door
Bell lets out two rings
That smell of books
Telescopes
Globes and other things.

Travel guides
Atlases
Maps strewn everywhere
Customer
Breaks fourth wall
Speaks as if you're there:


"I got upset when I first heard 
this shop was closing down.
I don't have any reason now 
to pass this way...

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I saw a battled frame
housing a black 
and white photo
of a hero 
in war, 

proudly posing
hiding his fear, 
his fragility

some family's pride
and country's

creased, 
in a junk shop...

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