Long Cashiers Poems

Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
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The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...

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Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
 Part One                     ...

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A rising sun burns like a solar flare
  from St....

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I know    
I tell you this instant
I am under surveillance  
my life is being recorded indefinite
every movement
private or ordinary
including this moment
every event
big or insignificant
without my consent
there is no instant
when i am...

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Ray was in for yet another surprise, when he discovered that his former best friend,
Jason, was also a roller skating waiter at Rene's!  Because Jason's family relied
upon their oldest eighteen years old son paying...

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I STOLE FOOD TO SATISFY MY SOUL

I used to be poor;
Lonely dis-pared homeless;
Maturated, no one cares;
Haven't had any type of bath in twelve days;
And yes, I stole hungry and dirty;
I'm hungry and thirsty; 
I when...

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I STOLE FOOD TO SATISFY MY SOUL

I used to be poor;
Lonely dis-pared homeless;
Maturated, no one cares;
Haven't had any type of bath in twelve days;
And yes, I stole hungry and dirty;
I'm hungry and thirsty; 
I when...

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The Stop & Shop strike v. Game of Thrones. 
In Game what’s not made plain
is the condition of the people
compared with warriors and queens.
There’s no mention of land-clearance, tree-felling, 
pruning, chopping, digging, hoeing, 
weeding, branding,...

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Hands Caught In The Till

The cash register, there is a pleasant  little "TING !" as it slides open....
More often than not, it will reveal cash notes, neatly stashed and weighted down..
Various denominations of cash...

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Say bye-bye to these:
    "Hold, please." (Hold what?)
    Typewriter Repairman Ads
    "Dial this number..." (What's 'dial?')  
    Down-time... Offline
   ...

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This is a parable how so many on the highway to death
Following and fighting over material things
Caught up in this world following the crowd

We have Jesus on the other end with the self check out


Have...

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Each day that I go to work,
I feel like I’m a zombie…
The smiling faces I put on are all just an act.

At the end of the day my jaw hurts from putting on these fake...

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Come sit by the fire... let's reminisce

About this and that, about life and love

Watching a robin take its first flight

Or a squirrel scurrying up a tree

The sun coming out from behind the clouds

The gentle breeze...

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Have you found your bargain
So many will camp out
To get a present on a deal
The lines will wrap around
The outside doors 
When the door opens be careful
For they stampede in trying to enter
Many get injured...

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THE DIE IS CAST
“I See,” said a blind man to his deaf Spouse, emphatically
I hear the S-rhetoric She replied Sarcastically
The symptoms and signs of Stagnation 
The Syndrome of intermittent Systems and Structures
Signing and later whining...

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Come sit by the fire... let's reminisce
About this and that, about what makes us sing
Watching a robin take its first flight
Or a squirrel scurrying up a tree
The sun coming out from behind the clouds
The gentle...

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Come sit by the fire... let's reminisce
About this and that, about what makes us sing
Watching a robin take its first flight
Or a squirrel scurrying up a tree
The sun coming out from behind the clouds
The gentle...

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I need, I want, I crave a distraction.

A distraction from the mundane, the Constant
struggle & the pain.
I know it is the same daily problems we all must
deal with...But, I need a Distraction!

Even for a day...

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who did not sit beside me
but stood in
the side view of me

just to start
with her sad
story of a
husband that pass away
(sorry for your loss, i said )

only to let her ask many
thousands of questions
about me...

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The old wood building is sadly vacant and needs repairs,
      but I have a dream to purchase it and bring it back to life;
it was a general store so I...

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No exception, we grab a cart
A slice of this geography  
A part of this society. Among the lines of people shopping,
talking, grazing, cell phones buzzing
cashiers checking, shoppers queuing, 
wheels are churning
cards are scanning,
as we...

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I reckon I've seen about everything in my nigh four-score years.
Obnoxious teens, obnoxious elders and unpleasant Wall-Mart cashiers,
And those baggy pants with the crotch nearly reaching to the knees,
But folks with a cell phone in...

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Small town grocery stores nowadays are very rare indeed,
But in simpler times they supplied a family's every need.
As a Hoosier lad, I worked in Mr L B Owen's Grocery Store,
In charge of absolutely nothing, but...

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The Noose is tightening.
The 5’s and 10’s yanked from our hands and aching backs 
Are spent on band-aids:
A last stand effort to plug the holes in our hearts
When the price of drowning is only getting...

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When is a lie an alternative truth?
Why are parking spaces so small?
Do subway riders know deodorant exists?
Why do jaywalkers ignore red lights,
and children never wash their hands before they eat?

Who decided to spell doubt with...

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