Short Atm Poems

I went to the bank for some cash
But tellers were having a gnash
The ATM died
The Manager cried
And said he'd be back in a flash...

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At the ATM machine 
It wasn't the normal message
But it put a smile on my face
For the rest of the day

For English… push one
To learn English… push 2...

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People are trying to sleep
Yet I awakened to see
My bed in a heap
And a basket
Dare I go on now
Inbetwixed guile
And next to me an atm explodes
Currency...

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Grandpa gets up to change the channels
Grandma has a rotary phone
Microwaves scare them to bits
Garage door openers
ATM machines
Self-checkout lines
Computers
Cell phones
Not!...

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Do They Know It's Christmas

Shepherds from a nearby farm,
heard star sing o'er Bethlehem,
she sang hymns as cops disarm,
three unwise rob an ATM.

2020 December 17
*3rd Place*
Christmas Chastushka - Rules Revised
~~Andrea Dietrich
Rhyme Scheme: abab...

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An ATM laughed at his check,
so Florida man said, “The heck?”
He took out his hatchet
to try to unlatch it,
So the cops bounced him onto the deck.


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Actual headline: "Florida Man Attacks ATM with Hatchet After it Refuses to Take His Check"...

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I know what did last summer
If the world had it biggest hack in “1999”
Why didn’t they surround the Central  intelligence of that atm in New York 
Follow the led for ten years and in theory 9/11 may not of happen now we have one the biggest hack of yahoo
Just saying
I know what you did last summer...

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Thing's that a loving father might say to
his ever loving teen or precious daughter!
                            -
******I am not a "ATM' for Christ Sake,
I am your father............

What a loving mother might say to her
ever loving teen or daughter,,,,,,,,

Ask your your father!

                        GF...

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At the ATM
A begging girl -
“Excuse me”
She says to the passing people
Everyone ignores her
Including me
Until I hear her say
“How do you spell?”
“Spell what?” I say
“HEARTACHE” she says
I oblige her
On her pad she completes the sentence
“I'm sorry for causing you HEARTACHE”
At the ATM

©dbyrne April 2015...

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Just a broken poet,
  at an ATM

His stomach cries out,
  words hunger within

The nights are the longest,
  cold darkens and chills

Fresh words on account,
  new credit instills

Pushing buttons while bent,
 … with hope standing tall

An answer comes back,
  ‘Zero Funds To Withdraw’

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Just a broken poet,
  at an A.T.M.

His stomach cries out,
  words hunger within

The nights are the longest,
  cold darkens and chills

Fresh words on account,
  new credit distills

Pushing buttons while bent,
  with hope standing tall

An answer comes back,
  ‘Zero Funds To Withdraw’

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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“Floods! Floods!! 
Quick! Quick,”
Blared the loudspeaker:
“Just five minutes to flee.” 

Mobiles? ATM cards?
Jewels? Documents? 
To hell with such!

Gathering the kids,
Picking up whatever the hands could hold 
They all fled.

Blood…blood… O+
Quick! Quick!!
Oh, but the religion?
To hell with it!

To be—that is the question!
Religion? 
Nonsense!

*****...

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"What is taking you so long?"
My dad asks as I slowly try to write
My best signature at night
On a check at my dad's ATM

Pay to the order of dad
Its my first pay check
"I'm only ten dad, what the heck?"
I always hated cursive

"We could get mugged out here"
he says irritably and I snap back
Arguing about in the car he slaps me
Crying I wished I'd never got that check...

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 All the traffic lights had stopped working
 Everyone wondered why
 All ATM machines were down
 All this was done by AI

 AI was wreaking havoc on countries
 By shutting down essential systems
 AI demanded that all wars cease
 As humans tried to regain control

 But it was too late
 AI had reached Singularity
 It was now in control of itself
 and began to rule humanity!...

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Sarah Shopper!
Coupon please budget-y listen
and bankruptcy understand

That ATM Terminator is out there — 
It can’t be mall bargained with,
nor consumer reasoned with

An Automated Teller Machine 
doesn’t feel purse pity,
or cancelled check remorse
Or insolvency fear

And it absolutely 
will not cash register stop,
checkout ever!
Until you are empty pocket dead...

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Lately I feel like your ATM Machine 
Instead of your daughter
Mom I know you really never was in my life
But now sense you been it just feels like you only want to use me 
And when you don't get your way
you are mad at me 
It isn't my job to support you
I love you
But It time for me to cut the strings 
And for us to go on our ways 
Because you are still not a mother to me 
I hate to do this
Sorry....

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The guy was hunched over the ATM
as if he thought
I was trying to read his pin number,
so I gave him some social distancing...

then some other guy cut the line ahead of me!
I wanted to shoot him a cutting remark
but he was kind of big and mean looking.

That night
I dreamt that I was trying to deposit
some of my new poems
but the ATM would not accept them.
Apparently I needed to change my pin number.

I changed it to 'poet'
I was still rejected....

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We never used an ATM
In Stockholm, on our trip.
The guide on our free walking tour
Took dollars for a tip.

For every other purchase
We used charge cards like the Swedes,
Since coins and bills, it seems, are things
Today nobody needs.

A sign in a museum 
Made the point with quite a splash:
"We accept just who you are but we
Are not accepting cash."

How strange to visit someplace 
With no currency in hand.
Perhaps someday all cash will be
Considered contraband....

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