Long Retailers Poems

The Story of History  

Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With  the resurrected  sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps   at the pretentious  proscenium
A ...

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Date  June 2024
A large group  picketed outside 
Of the toilet paper factory. 
People held picket
Signs marching in a circular line.
The Group chanted: 
Revolters deserve better bottom
Paper on this caper!  The group
Became bigger...

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Asian Epicurean Quest

At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
  
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors of street food, rude t-shirts, and rubber sandles to put...

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Government Sales Tax GST
Since the introduction of GST, a sales tax newly  introduced back in April 1st last year,
GST or Government Sales Tax has wreaked untold financial miseries all thro the year.
Despite the various...

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how much is it worth to you to feel safe and secure?
how much would you spend? how much could you afford?
what is the monetary value that you would place on your life?
how much money would...

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Thanksgiving gobbledygook

The following anecdote baste
upon overactive imagination of mine
in sync with being married
and monogamously living socially chaste
life as a scrupulous anchorite,
whose weather beaten corporeal flesh
plus sabotaged, riddled,
and tuckered psyche effaced
after becoming adequately stuffed,
this turkey (in...

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We heard her before we saw her not because she was loud but because she was close,  

she anchored herself making her presence felt; we paid the cashier and were about to leave 
with...

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Walmart
I despise you

The flea on the dog
Aphid in the garden
Disease that turns into plague

Wasn't to pleased we did business with you
Was out of my control, 
Had to watch the news
He comes in my room
Look of...

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A Christmas Thought
It was a night like this
That the world changed forever
Some say for the worse
Some say for the better
A child arrived
The King of Kings
The world would be different
So the Angel sings

Unto you a child...

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the ebb and flow of this ocean surrounding me, 
consumes my waking being 
thy waves of love lap at my soul in 
ever-rising surges... 
so high the tides of erotic delight, 
that one can scarce...

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Money to invest?
To stay ahead of the rest,
Not sure who you can trust.

Look no further,
Nothing can be surer,
Buy one for your mother,
Sell one to your Brother,
No longer a need for a broker

Guaranteed to be the...

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While older retailers like JC Penny and Sears are dying
   Newer behemoths, think Walmart and Amazon, are flying

Unemployment's under 4%, at historic lows
   Though real income's been a bit slow to...

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Standing on the street corners with nothing to do,
Spitting, shouting, smoking whilst drinking taboo,
No money but wishing and pouncing fags,
People assume they the sporn of the council estate hags,
Crack heads, Scag heads everyones opinion,
People know...

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Here's who to blame
The Chinese government began it all
Those wild creatures traded in that wet market
I mean 
Secrets were kept too long
It's self-evident 
Air travel spreads it abroad
With inadequacy of testing before and after
And
Track and...

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Shopping Spree 

It was a big shop, large as warehouse it sold everything I didn’t need; 
and the shop was empty of staff. The thief in my thought: if I had a van
 I could...

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People glower; horns get louder - 
I wonder why a drive so dour
was ever termed rush hour.
.
Dollars followed by point 99 
Are dollars with one more assigned.
Retailers think shoppers math blind.

Business phones in America evolved
With...

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Urban legend now bared to the bone
Yet its trademark can no larger store clone
No glossy signs, spacious lots fealty to hone
But in colloquial parlance a tradition has grown
Larger Discount stores with dignity stand alone
Corner grocery,...

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Who took the M out of magic
The A followed close behind
G didnt want to be left alone
I and  C says, please be kind

Can we not stick together
Why have we drifted away
Why aren't we enjoying christmas
Who...

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Slow down!  by Viv Wigley


The first week of September,
still no sign of Halloween,
a shop window full of Christmas cards
the second I have seen.
By the time my Pumpkin's binned and
fake spider on its last legs,
the shops...

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