Best Takeout Poems

beware the enemy who can
fart your national anthem
it was a mob scene at the microphone
kill him kill him they laughed
nobody wanted to miss the show
a...

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Thank you for coming 
And giving me your time,
You seemed to like the Chinese,
I know I liked mine.

You have been gone now
For many a year,
Life...

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With a wok, they cook some great delights.
There they are slaving during days and nights.
Their menu has great variety.
Pork, beef, chicken, and shrimp all look...

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Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade, 
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat, 
was...

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in most human endeavors
there are those items that just
don't quite fit in with the rest of the projects

from batteries to rubber bands
to unused takeout menus...

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"Beyond lychgate lies future death" she says,
cucumbered eyes slid back under cauliflower sky,
brimming smithereens of harkening demons.

Been in saddle some time since torchlight began,
a child's...

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Magic Soup

Old lady at the door 
Young man walking bye
 Lady you got food to spare 
Come inside young man I have a plan
See this...

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I go to a restaurant owned by Wang Chung.
His specialty dish is shrimp egg foo young.
The food is the best in town without a doubt.
I...

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POCKETS TURN INSIDE OUT.LINT BALLS
FALL RIGHT OUT...A NIGHT OUT WITH
YOU IS WITH COUPONS AT MICKEY D'S.
ASKING THE CLERK TO SUPER SIZE A
TAKEOUT MEAL.

CHEAP SKATE:THE FLOWERS...

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She waits, a grounded eagle, eating takeout, passing time,
And stares, a crippled hunter, chasing salmon of the mind.
She courts a passing breeze; hopeless passion
 ...

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This is New York!
   creamy cheesecake,
     chinese takeout,
        dirty dawgs,
  ...

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once a young man from Brooklyn

wanted to try home cookn

his oven it died

from rice that he fried

now hes takeout a lookn....

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What I got is what you need
What I got is special indeed
What I got you will fiend
There’s no need to wean
Stay true in what you...

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Is it Aerosmith or The Eagles for you,
  Republican or Democrat to vote

Is it Chinese takeout or Italian bistro,
  or the prose or...

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Neighbors

by Edmund Siejka

It was getting colder 
Sun slowly
Easing  
From the afternoon sky. 

Taking off his glasses  
He studied the front steps 
How was...

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