Long Shopkeeper Poems

“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern...

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They are wandering everywhere and you act as if you don’t care; they are wandering everywhere and you are walking around clapping your hands and stomping your feet and dragging your body on the cold...

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There was a young man named Anton,
who lived back in the seventies,
he wasn’t the type to fit in,
felt outcast from society.

Never got along with others,
and didn’t enjoy playing sports,
his parent’s said, “Just get out more.”
It...

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Will I be a cleric or a pastor?
I 
I think of be a priest in Catholic Church,
All allies & helpers cry
Yes, my fiancée said I dared not,
 I awe her logic of rejects me to...

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You took off for Christmas and New Years Eve, and you came back high and chirpy with a rosy face looking like daisy blended with charming lips and an attitude that could pull me off...

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ONE DAY 
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COPYRIGHT-POETESS-MRS. ANJALI DENANDEE,MOM
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one day.......
a summer - mid - noon..........
a man goes to a shop............
from his house.........
he asks,...........
'' hey ! you ! the shopkeeper !.........
please! say , .........
''what is the cost of a green-raw-coconut...

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Hail, frozen rain blew down from the west ,a biting shattering wind, changes puddles to ice,
Head down keeping the hail from stinging my face, it’s blown sideways so cold feeling sick,
Overcoat soaked right through to...

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I carved a circle on the ground to search for a new path to go home, I carved a circle on the ground to find where destiny is bound. I stand on the circle time...

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I forgive you my dear country
And her ignoramuses
To my televangelists who prophesy 
earthquakes
And hellfire
Instead of love and forgiveness
So they steal from the poor
To buy miracles from God;
To my shopkeeper who doubles the 
price
Of flour at...

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Ever since I can remember
it was love at first sight
I'd put pinup on my bedroom wall
and dream about them every night.

I'd draw pictures in my school books
and drooled when I saw one on TV
They looked...

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It was a cloudy sky
Drizzle had just stopped softly
On this enchanting evening, I was lined lucky
As there was an ugly beggar who deserved care, swiftly

I stopped my car before that hotel
where sometime I used to...

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As a very young boy of fourteen I set out one night through the week
To meet my girlfriend from Girl Guides, the beautiful Angelique

It was a dark and windy evening and just as I put...

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I loved that old man. 
A weirdo, and the biggest snob 
I have ever seen,  in my entire life.
 
To be honest, 
he is the stingiest person 
that ever tried to present me 
in...

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I spent my day shopping for rubies

for my Mommy who wished to mate

misheard though because I was small

asked for boobies instead for her date


the vendour asked me how many

I replied I only had money for...

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More or less


I heard their talks on the path 
of more or less

both were shaking head at least
Honesty should be paste

road was dusty rim of the pants
Were blowing dust in addition

I closed nostrils both covering...

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Today was independence day in our country,
I dint know the exact date, I just woke up on it in the news,
Don’t call me unpatriotic, because of that.

I went to the shop, got a share of...

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The old woman came out of the eye hospital,
After receiving the news, she was going blind.
She was feeling very depressed, not just about her eyes,
The state of the world in general.
After her hospital visit, she...

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Achmed made a marvellous find 
as he walked inside the Bazaar, 
all kinds of mysterious treasures
deposited from near and far: 

A Heart of purest Gold
nestled inside a wooden chest, 
some cobwebs clung to the side
yet...

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I’m shopkeeper of happiness
my warehouse is full of joy, pleasure
it is loaded with belly laughter and frowns
“Happiness Shop Now Open”, is my shop’s label
If you come to my shop, give me smile
that is the cash...

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Paula the pangolin polished her scaly skin
Went to the market and traded her mandolin
Told the shopkeeper, “I’ll swap for a mandarin,
Oranges are a bit big for a pangolin.”

The shopkeeper gave her the requisite fruit
And said,...

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Let's go on an adventure one that's full of life 
Let's run away from our problems, all the sadness and the strife 
 
I'll meet you at the edge of town with nothing but my...

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Come sit a spell,
While this story I tell,
That is not tall,
But has a moral if asleep you don't Fall.

It begins with a set of keys,
That found a way to tease.
As  lost to me they...

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Whither the true gentleman who holds the door open for a lady
  Whither the noble scout, escorting an elderly matron 'cross the street

Whither the friendly officer who greets me as I pass him on...

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It’s Howdy Doody Time!
It’s Howdy Doody Time!
If you know this rhyme so nifty,
Your childhood was probably in a fifty.

Remember the advertisers promoting color TV?
This was when we all had black and white, you and me.
Howdy...

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 POET THIEF

A thieving poet on soup stole a rhyme
Didn't know plagiarism was a crime
But then he got found out
With his syllable count
Now is in poetry jail doing time...

JOHN DUDE

A shopkeeper by the name of...

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