Short Appliances Poems

No appealing lure
that old lifetime guarantee
on appliances

©Kathryn McL. Collins
November 7, 2012...

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  Appliances today
    replete with whistles and bells

  The only problem is ~
    they don’t work so well
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montreal moving day
appliances at risk
in spiral staircases



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on June 10, 2020 for contest SPIRAL sponsored by MICHAEL KAI NEUMANN

Originally posted on May 21, 2018...

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Feeders

Drinkers

Perches

Beds and nests

Crates

Lighting system

Waste disposal system

Incubator

Heaters and brooders

Egg trays

Cages and coops

Constant chat

We were burning
When they were busy laughing, mocking!
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By Angeline Star

The ad stated that
the prospective employee 
should have the ability
to prepare and serve food samples 
using small appliances such as 
microwaves, fryers, skillets, coffee makers 
and knives.

He had a background
with knives....

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We've got the wedding bin blues,
Reception Centres should have been sued,
Plastic chicken and phony food, 
"Why did you marry me?" we rued,
This is the first wives' club,
Half were in the pudding club,
The orange appliances survived,
Half the exes aren't alive,
Reception Centres should have been sued,
We've got the wedding bin blues!!...

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I see you from far away
You’re that girl from Steve’s party
All I know about you 
You get really drunk 
All you know about me
Up to speculation
We approach each other
Fumble with appliances
I put in my headphones
You look at your phone
We have sunken to a lower connection
‘No hello acquaintances’				
Labeled 
And 
Stamped
We go our separate ways...

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The bamboo shades.
Fresh oranges just squeezed.
Neatly hung towels right in place,
Chrome on all appliances glistening.
Beige basket for mail.
That darling window that allows God's sunshine in.
The resplendent shining microwave.
And of course the cat on her rug.
Foevergreen eyes, looking up.
Mom on the her knees, giving a hug.


June 4, 2019
5:15am PST

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He's protected by insurance on his house
   his vehicles, a wide range of health concerns
   permanent disability, large appliances
   his business and all its applicable insurables

   against floods, wars, tornadoes earthquakes
   glacier-melt, cyclones, asteroids, meteors
   avalanches, mudslides, volcanoes, air and 
   seat travel...

                   ... But nothing on his own life...

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Old man wind pulled back the ocean waters 
and funneled them into his watering can; 
sprinkled them across the state; 
over-watering every garden in sight.

A flood, six inches of water invaded my basement; 
a three inch wading hole in the street and 
a fortune in appliances and furniture was lost.  
Afterwards he painted a rainbow in a cloudy sky and 
started over again.  
His tantrum lasted for two weeks.
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O, the nights we couldn't stop sweating
  the porch no cooler than our rooms
Enervated, we drove down to the lake
  where 'shore patrol' lowered the boom

All those appliances that too often failed
  jalopies that wouldn't start in the cold
Lights flickering with each drop of rain
  all those folks who at 50 were old

Yet this is not what we choose to remember
  'coz memory, thank God, is selective
If not, who would ever reminisce
  over things as they were ~ so defective...

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