Shoplifting Fireworks
shoplifting fireworks -
the red-white-blue prison stripes
of good citizens
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Categories:
shoplifting, america,
Form: Senryu
Shoplifting
Shoplifting
At the supermarket, my wife pushed the trolley
While I walked around in the hope of finding some
Unboring food found a tin of tunny in hot sauce
I could make a breakfast of this (diabetes).
But the tin in my pocket to hand to my wife
And forgot about it.
We paid and left.
Outside I froze we hadn’t paid for
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Categories:
shoplifting, bullying,
Form: Blank verse
A Can of Peaches
She was a kleptomaniac,
His wife of thirty years.
The risks she took for stuff of little value
Had all but driven him to tears.
She had such low regard for the risk;
Always said, “If I’m caught, I’ll pay.”
“But what if they’re not satisfied?” he’d ask.
She just smiled and said, “That’ll be the day.”
When first they met, he thought
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Categories:
shoplifting, addiction, angst, betrayal, character,
Form: Rhyme
Shoplifting
What a woman blessed with million dollar looks!
However, we haven’t seen you recently. What cooks?
You were found shoplifting. What a stupid thing to do!
They caught you red handed at Saks Fifth Avenue.
I don’t believe it. Tell me it isn’t true!
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Categories:
shoplifting, loss
Form: Rhyme
Shoplifting
One day I wanted to get my girlfriend a gift.
It was terrible because I decided to shoplift.
I tried to steal something that I should've bought.
Like many other shoplifters, I was caught.
I offered to pay for the perfume that I tried to steal.
But they decided to prosecute me and I felt ill.
It was scary when they
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Categories:
shoplifting, on writing and wordsme,
Form: Rhyme