Best Shop Talk Poems

Ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk
a shear blade stricking sheet metal, ka-chunk.
Cah-tink, cah-tink, cah-tink, cah-tink, cah-tink
a press pierces, notches and holes, cah-tink
Cha-boom, cha-boom, cha-boom, cha-boom, cha-boom.
Breaks form...

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Hey, what's up Pete? Same old stuff eh?

Alright, lemme swivel this chair around 'n you climb up here. Bout time you come in .You 
lookin'...

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An eyesore in the community as progress takes its toll.
Windows broken, rust on the old metal frames
Vacant, dust filled, old broken file cabinet in the...

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I sat down and watched the other day,
At an old man in a booth across the way.
This old man looked lost and wasn't there,
As he...

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Sitting on the very old court house square
New bank facility on the corner
Massive structure, commanding, once bare
This square once small stores center

People came to shop,...

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There are differences in what I have seen
Just in the way some are
But, after all the smoke has been blown away
Some are nice and some...

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Nothing held back 
Realness of the moment
Felling talk within and without
All Blending together 
Making colored value
Times for the archive
Picture book size
Erasing need to analyze
Crisp shop...

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