There’s no amount
Which does not count
In an account…
Yep, no amount
Sellers discount
And while recount
Your whole story
Fail to glory:
Place in praised sky
For being Quite High…
Don’t pressures mount
After discount
For more from Fount
Or self soon count
The Badly Bluffed,
His wish rebuffed…
Discounts fetch smiles;
Who gave went miles!
Categories:
discount, anxiety, betrayal, care, money,
Form: Rhyme
There is a problem in aisle three.
I can't reach the cans of garden peas,
they are on offer.
An elderly man is down.
A handful of helpers,
on one knee
it looks bad.
I cannot get there,
I have to wait,
for the oxygen,
the first responders to
firstly respond,
for the aisle to clear.
Then I had to push through
a group of concerned onlookers,
to reach over his prone body
for the peas.
Categories:
discount, poetry,
Form: Free verse
People entering Giant Tiger usually have grey hair
It's something to do with the tattered clothes they wear
Bank accounts are smaller
They have dwindling dollars
A mask solves the problem of being recognized there
Categories:
discount, age,
Form: Limerick
Discount Justice
I go to the store,
there is a paper…
It is meant to sell me things.
Most items I need,
some I want,
others are on SALE.
A coupon is cut from
this same sheet,
It is a promise,
of goods,
of services,
of excellence,
and loyalty,
appreciation.
Yes… they mix and match.
Yes… they have a system.
Yet the balance is not even.
Paper...
a thing that is gone,
or going away.
"Real" you can not touch.
Now I wrestle with an app.
It says... 2 for one, 3 for 8?
and clearly…
come back on Sunday next.
“No”… there is no net (internet con.),
You can not have that price,
It is only for those that,
still read…
without glasses,
fully understanding the bottom line.
If you can not keep up,
You will be last, or even forgotten,
nearly all the time.
Yet be sure you will pay…
full price every day,
for the rest of your life.
Categories:
discount, absence, analogy, appreciation, december,
Form: Free verse
I'm Bald headed-have piss yellow teeth
don't use balm or whiteners to appear young again
every scar is a jagged path to a novella called living.
Cursed and blessed with a good heart
wild horse temperament that's bucked most riders off.
Loyal to a fault for the few who've stuck it out
through all the ups and downs.
I could blow out of here at any time
but for now everything's just fine..
I've crash landed on a cay of calm..
Quite proud that I've made it this far
more than half way to a hell, oft mistaken as a star
At times slipping into the murky waters of mundane,
just another battered face rooting through a discount bin
Always on the fringe of a spinning tassel of content
Everywhere there's mounds of glitter glued to plastic bags.
covering up the dry rot-I've no interest in any of that
Shocking I can pull it together at a funeral
but not when I'm putting down a pet-
I want to be a whirling dust devil
outside this hollow town
not inside the plastic masks
of all the dead hearted clowns.
Categories:
discount, age,
Form: Free verse
christmas eve
rooting through the discount bin
not finding jesus
Categories:
discount, christmas, jesus,
Form: Haiku
Today I rode into Tucson
Determined to buy a new futon
A squirt in a skirt
Got down in the dirt
And flashed me a discount coupon
Categories:
discount, culture, discrimination, gender, prejudice,
Form: Limerick
One-third off,
sixty-six percent marked down quality
At the voting booth bazaar,
base gypsy thoughts are belly dancing
around your capitalist-veiled head
You like what that smiling politician said;
promising you a lot of green bread,
come get your lying share
Saying you gon have so many job offers,
corporate courting you to their employment bed
Every four years,
work is always
glamour sold as being so sexy
Balaam’s mule is shaking his hemorrhaging head
Dire diagnosis: Voter apoplexy, I’m afraid —
campaign promises are clinging on life support
State of emergency inaugural arrival,
listen to what the Surgeon General said:
Democracy is flatlining ... ‘bout to go brain dead
And the lobbyist mortician merchants are free-market shilling:
Get the funeral voter discount,
an ivory coffin is life insurance tax-cut pre-paid
Vote for the wizard you do know ...
follow the Oz path to perdition,
where yellow bricks of cruel compassion are laid
Categories:
discount, allegory, political, slam, truth,
Form: Free verse
Had a chicken dinner in a restaurant last night
Asked the waitress for discount coz we were so nice
She looked quite amazed
Figured I was a bit crazed
Said, “Pay or the cops will be crawling the place”
Categories:
discount, fun,
Form: Limerick
Armless doll
Thrown in Fate's trash
Her heart still beating...
Categories:
discount, life,
Form: Senryu
Armless doll
Thrown in Fate's trash
Her heart still beating...
Categories:
discount, life,
Form: Free verse
you look
and get hook
not for bail
for a sale
where ever it
bounces
you go get a
HOLIDAYS DISCOUNT
Categories:
discount, fantasy, holiday,
Form: Light Verse
(This is a fictional poem)
While we were shopping, you tried to steal a bracelet that was worth a lot.
But before you could get out of the store, you got caught.
They thought I was an accessory so they prosecuted me as well.
I'm mad because you got me arrested so you can go to hell.
This incident has caused me a great deal of grief.
My girlfriend dumped me because she thinks I'm a thief.
You may not realize it but stealing is a sin.
It will be a cold day in hell when I go shopping with you again.
Categories:
discount, angst, friendship, on writing
Form: I do not know?