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Checkout Counter Poems - Poems about Checkout Counter
My Morning Mix Up
...Upon opening the fridge this morning I found, to my great displeasure, that there was nary an egg to be found. Posthaste I marched down to the corner market, grabbed a carton of fresh, free range eg......
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Robert Gorelick
Categories:
checkout counter,
age, confusion, humor,
Form:
Narrative
No One Would Buy That Thing
...My new neighbor asked if I wanted to go shopping with her. This is like waving a honeycomb in front of a hungry bear. When she said “thrift stores” I was all in. The day was delightful; we had sim......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
checkout counter,
friendship,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Early Morning Friend
...My wife found a grocer that opens from 6 to 7am for seniors only before serving the general public. And I kid you not. Yesterday, on an early morning mission for my wife to purchase mustard greens, ......
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Curtis Johnson
Categories:
checkout counter,
animal, bird, food,
Form:
Narrative
Dale - On the Death of Dale Winton
...When you're at the checkout counter And you hear the beep It won't be Dale having fun On Supermarket Sweep Dale's with the angels now I hope they like his style And let him have a trolley An......
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Gail Foster
Categories:
checkout counter,
cheer up, death, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
How Was Your Summer
...How was your summer, said the cashier At the checkout counter. Then later that day the radio guys Are talking that way…talk about Winterizing the yard & the car, Pick up the yard, rake some le......
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Fonda Anne
Categories:
checkout counter,
august, autumn, september, summer,
Form:
Free verse