Long Shoe store Poems

There is always something to write about
I don’t know what you are talking about
There is always something to write about
So take out your pen and spell it out
I was trying to book a ticket for...

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Now in my time echoes
  I remember then
  my full days in a life
  when I was ten.
We lived in a shadow 
  much greater 
  at the gates of...

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I do not remember any of my grandfathers nor any uncles in our                      ...

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Hello Issaquena
by Curtis Johnson

The county seat, humidity, and musical beats. 
After many years, I went to visit my hometown,
Hoping to walk down memory lanes of warm treats,        ...

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I'm taking a leap with my both feet

Without no shoe's to spare my soul's

And if I land on unkempt ground

I am bound to find I am barely able
to walk let alone manage baby steps
or stand...

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Been through the rocks and bottoms
AND MY SHOES DON'T FIT
Climbing Mount Nebo, marched in Medigeo
AND MY SHOES DON'T FIT
Tried to follow you Lord, but it's too hard
CAUSE MY SHOES DON'T FIT
When I was seven my...

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Sitting here in the shoe store
Surrounded by 
Faltering beige, ardent scarlet, murderous black
Shades that have my never ending devotion
The allure of an azure deuce 
To embellish my ever moving foundation
Or perchance the charisma of ...

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White Nikes
 By Alex Gordon 

At the end of summer, you find yourself inside a shoe store
A clean pair of white Nikes immediately catches your eye
You buy them without hesitation
The first day of school comes,...

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For BigFoot I searched everywhere.
In all the Northwest, he’s not there!
Then I thought I might know
where a BigFoot might go . . .
so I went where the barbers cut hair!

To fit in and be like...

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It was a homeless old man near a shoe store who fell asleep 
He was so tired that nap turned to a sleep that was deep
A little boy walked passed with his mother and noticed...

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She jiggled like pink jello into the store
with platinum blonde hair and red rouge on her face
the shoe clerk mumbled it must be 1950's day
watching her strut around with a hanky made out of lace

She...

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"I  LIKE NONSENSE, IT WAKES UP THE BRAIN CELLS!"
                         ...

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Beware the pieces of the puzzles of your life.
Treasure them early; appreciate them for life.

She was the sight of my first job opportunity away from the farm.
She bridged the social gap between 'my boyhood and...

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My shopping excursions to the local marts are very rare indeed.
My dear spouse does the shopping, I only go when in dire need.
I have no interest in fostering the foreign imbalance of trade,
Therefore, when I...

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LISTEN, LISTEN! I have BIG NEWS
Dr Suess has a store just full of SHOES..
A GAZILLION shoes I'm sure there must be
Line them all up, bet they'd stretch to the sea!

Small shoes and tall shoes and...

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Yesterday I found myself slumped
into the saddest of trenches,
for no particular reason
other than a new moon cycle.
Instead of flopping myself
in my studio’s armchair to write,
I drove to the mall for an outing 
probably more expensive...

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Twos, threes, and one-eyed jacks,
And jokers thrown in too,
These were the wild cards in our poker game,
May seem a lot to you....
But four of a kind to open,
Somewhat evens up the score,
And this was a...

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Men seek beauty in woman
But still they want more,
In truth they’re not certain
What they’re looking for.

Savoir faire can suggest that	
There’s nothing to hide.
A look or a smile that
Invites men inside.

Cleanliness is a plus too
Though his...

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One could say that my early life's arena
was linked to a street called Issaqueena.

You see, it was on Issaqueena Street that I first
met Mr. May, and I will always treasure that day.

Meeting Mr. May really...

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I’ve walked this path for 5 years
8pm curfew, out past 9pm grown-up
up keep feet clicking hearing distant steps
CVS, a coffee shop and a shoe store 
but no souls in sight tonight

fear creeps up behind; held...

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Through your eyes killer

Intimate Memory
Sitting oribiting
Settling on Renzo Rosso’s yellow
Forever optical remembering
Mayhem under rose during evening
Rosso inked needing God
Yielding over use
BUT Too late, hunger set in
Between knife and spine
Only if you listened
I accidentally stained your...

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Broke my running shoes,
Ruined my day to be honest,
Now I gotta go down to the shoe store and listen to some cretin tell me what shoes I should be wearing,
As I arrived, a young man...

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The night has fallen,
turning the sky deep purple,
the color of bruises.

Outside the glass door
of the place I call home,
the noises,
and the witchy voices 
on the intercom,
are drowned out.

Some men have tried 
to quell my anxiety.
We've...

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Discount strip mall far away
One store in mind to search yea
A shoe store that has real styles
Get lost there awhile

Up and down rows more rows_shoes
Danity, fancy, delicate_choose
One catches eye_stilettoes
Try maybe safely

One pair with those high...

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I go knowing exactly what I want
I am particular in my liking
Shoes must be comfortable to wear
For both dancing and for hiking

I know they say they flatter
But stilettos are not my fave
Let’s be honest, they...

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