Josh Moore of South Dakota Why is God Love Jack?
...Oval day broke and hunger looking for $5 meal
Walk into the discount store. Food fossils line the shelves, with beverages stacked in dusty years and bread petrified with mold, hard for two weeks. J...
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Categories:
discount store, addiction, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
All of a Sudden, Or Not At All
...All of a sudden, or not at all.
Love does not roll in with the tide.
Love is calculated, and random.
A steady roller coaster best strap in for the ride.
There is no cushion for the fall from gr...
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Categories:
discount store, destiny, extended metaphor, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 52 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Iii
...The children called Damian into
The foyer to inspect their
Achievement. Damian came
Down the staircase and looked
Around. Pleased with the
Organization skills of his
Offspring, he Loosened his ...
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Categories:
discount store, birth, father son, wife,
Form: Alliteration
Vegan Aardvark
...THEN the skies bellowed a frothy glitter and d o w n became up &
sideways turned horizontally truthful
said the vegan Aardvark.
THE Policeman chewed his m0uth-
side and a Red Ant craw...
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Categories:
discount store, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Reflections of a Dollar General Shopper
...Making my way through the Dollar General hoping to get an economy pack of Thank You cards to send out to all the people who had just given me expensive gifts
(Not really; I was there for cheap c...
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Categories:
discount store, 3rd grade, angst, growing
Form: Narrative
Changes
...I've seen my childhood memories
In broad daylight come and go
What ones didn't fade away
Away they were thrown
From Granddaddy's Carolina farm
To the old country store
As progress keeps on m...
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Categories:
discount store, life,
Form: Rhyme
Me Thinking, B Thinking
...I’m thinking of the letter “B”
So close and yet so far
It seems a bit unfair to me
Let’s stop, reset the bar
We’ve cast the “B” to status, poor
With quality less pleasing
Like s...
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Categories:
discount store, fun, humor, language,
Form: Rhyme
Black Friday
...Black Friday zooms:
A magic poise,
A lusty room,
A greedy choice.
The heat is on:
Buy more and more,
Cheap discount store,
Odd stocks galore!
Wants now emerge:
Watch crazy surge,
Su...
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Categories:
discount store, allegory,
Form: Quatrain
Billionaires Dont Care For You and Me
...Multi Billionaires don't know your life.
And have never had to go without.
Decide whether to feed the kids or pay the rent.
Do a job that they really hate.
Clean damp from the walls and mice fro...
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Categories:
discount store, political,
Form: Free verse
Jeremiah 10:23
...As I awoke to a brand-new day
I asked Him to direct my path
To protect and guide, lest I should fall
And keep me free, from grief and wrath
In haste, I departed on an errand
Forgot - if I, ha...
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Categories:
discount store, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Ghostwriter Madly In Love
...Happily piling in,
The discount store games begin
tis the season to be jolly but
Dont ****ing touch me!-
beneath the holly
I dont know where that mouths been
and look at those clothes!
thrift store t...
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Categories:
discount store, friendship, funny, love,
Form: Free verse
You Won'T Believe Who I Saw At Target
...You Won’t Believe Who I Saw at Target
By Elton Camp
I was surprised at who I thought that I did spy
But caught her only out of the corner of my eye
Even with a baseball cap and such dark gl...
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Categories:
discount store, funny,
Form: Rhyme
That's Why I Love Life
...(Written to the rhythm of "The Things that I Love", if you want to sing along!)
Eating black licorice and cake with thick frosting!
Not doing so many things too exhausting.
Trying out ice creams...
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Categories:
discount store, christmas, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Shoes
...Yearning to dance, he went
to a discount store with
very little money to spend.
He needed new old shoes.
He’d been saving to buy beer
that evening, and aftershave,
and a ten dollar ticket
t...
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Categories:
discount store, dance, dance,
Form: Free verse
At the Mall
...As soon as I stepped through the doors of the mall
I ran into two old friends John and Paul
They were with two girls the first named Karen
And I think the other girl was named Sharon
I went to ...
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Categories:
discount store, adventure, friendship, happiness, music,
Form: Rhyme
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