Long Shop assistant Poems

Headlights messaged through midnight windows 
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency 
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning

Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...

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Die Lorelei by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)- Translated by T. Wignesan
	For Regina von Degenfeld at Waibstadt
	-in respect and unending sufferance-

(Heine, a German Jewish lyrical and satiric poet, journalist and critic,
 settled in Paris from 1831 where...

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Jungle Drums

Well known was Molly by gossips
Words fell so easy from her lips
They always found ready ears
Revered was she amongst her peers

A casual meeting Molly made
Good conversation she displayed
Invited then to mothers meeting
Where received a...

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It's a day.
There's a flip in it.
First bit is a blah, blah, blah - lots of stuff we'll deal with later. You know, how it might all end as relayed by a doctor, but that's...

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My wife and I were having one of them bonding days,
where we ate lunch in a café… and of course it’s me who pays!
Then we strolled along the street to look in all the shops.
Now...

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"Who will believe a mountebank? Everyone if she is good." ~Andy Griffith~ 

Carefully she wrote on the back of a fifty dollar bill. 
”Have a happy birthday dear, I know you will”
After writing that sweet...

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You know what I bought this bed sofa the other day
          It was the sort for a lofa,yeah it was blue and grey
   ...

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So,
There I am
Browsing in a book store
No one around but me for a mile or more.

Suddenly
I feel someone's heavy breath
On the back of my neck
Looking over my shoulder to see what I'm looking at
What the...

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Please, Do You Have Double Vision?

My gorgeous body swipes with acceptance my entirety, 
Loves my mind, its monumental triumphs and dark corridors,   
Liaisons with winds which passion causations of complexity, 
Wets my sweated...

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Millie millipede needed some new shoes
for her summer holiday fun Disney cruise
Her old shoes were tight making Millie hop
so she went with mommy to the shoe shop

Millie hobbled through the door and began to wail
the...

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Cakes of Love 

Coconut macaroons she sold the nice little girl at the cake shop, 
I was eating macaroons every day, but Sundays when the shop 
shut and I pined for Monday. My sister said...

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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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It lay gleaming in the window
It was the day after payday
You newer know when you are in too deep

I went inside
Looking at a diving watch, a quite good-looking one
You newer know when you are in...

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Chemist Shop 
At the entrance of the pharmacy a dead sparrow,
no one seemed to notice this tiny death.
The bird just lied there with folded wings and eyes
suitable closed, ready to be put in a coffin.
I...

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No bombs here

I walked ashore in Nagasaki 
traces of the bomb had gone
the dead buried
the maimed packed away 
no one wanted to talk about
the bomb
Nagasaki had many shops 
I bought a kimono made of silk
the beautiful shop assistant
didn't...

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Good Morning!

Good Morning! I said.
    Now I have a good one.
        Answered a lady, a shop assistant.

Sunday morning, I understand you. I said.
  ...

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