Long Safeway Poems

“the last of the funerals”

today “the last of the funerals”
takes place &
the killings in CT get placed on the
shelf,
alongside the deaths at Columbine,
Virginia Tech...

those were the “big ones” right?

well, now, Aurora was a “big one,”...

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FIVE DOLLAR FRIDAY AT SAFEWAY,MY FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK.......
FROM EIGHT PIECES OF GOLDEN FRIED CHICKEN,AND MORE,BESIDES THAT I MUST SPEAK.............
BESIDES OF GOLDEN FRIED CHICKEN,THERE'S SO MUCH,SO MUCH,MUCH MORE.....
UPON THAT GOOD OL' FRIDAY,AT SAFEWAY,I ADORE....
SWEETS,FRESH...

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Raised up by earlier than early spring					
the daffodils thrust their honking horns				
at the promise of this newness, earned again 				
by slumbering through last year’s losses.			
Zach placed them in a deep red bowl	 				
(one Mama Sal...

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Benedict was tired, he’d been driving all day.  
This was his last delivery, 2 tonnes of eggs delivered to Safeway.  
The kid came out of nowhere, stared Benedict in the face,
He tried to...

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In my dream they were an old couple wrinkled 
 
 small and gray smiling faces wishing us well 

 as I was growing old myselff with crinkled eyes
 
 away from any medical unexpected...

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Every time I go to the store;
I see those same bare walls;

What's the issue;
What's America doing eating toilet tissue;

Shelves are still empty,
no matter what time I go;
And every time I go to the store;
I see...

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There once was a house up on that hill. 
Just a stones throw away from the old saw mill. 
It stood so tall, majestic and bold 
with tales and fond memories waiting to be told.

Four...

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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...

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Saturation Point 

Dirt under my nails
A withered feeling
I did not notice the sun
Until I succumbed to a weakness
In by back and knees

My shoulders sagged
My eyelids were
Like those lead fishing lures
I found in a corner of...

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5 and 10, a quarter to nine
                            The...

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small boy at a game kiosk
vending machines that smell stale
separate stairways climbing up
to hombres and mujeres
a ticket vendor chained to his desk
wearing shiny black shoes
below wasted legs
mandatory alcoholic in checked shirt
with faded vomit spots
the homeless...

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Thought about over thirty years of Easter eggs
done up in a thousand different ways.
Finding late in the evening that the dregs
of eggs were spoiled and quickly to Safeway

to buy a few dozens to boil and...

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I Did Not Melt 
I did not melt 
To ERLINE(the safeway girl) 

I am positive I will not melt, 
I have only to exist. 
My love is now for me, 
I am no effiminant. 
I...

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You're a Street Map that has to be believed.
George Street 1975 then a jewel in everybody's Crown, Mister K too.
Croydon had it all, the weekly Safeway shopping -
Grants , North End, Greyhound and L &...

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Haughty Banana turns away from Cabbage and holds her nose.
Amorous Apple whispers to Peach, "You're much lovelier than Rose".
Fragile Lettuce edges away from frozen Maiden Ice Cream,
And shy Violet cries to one and all, "If...

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