Short Haggling Poems

We dickered and haggled the vendor and me
The price I wanted to pay he could not see
Fifty US dollars is my final offer, I said.
I’ll keep it he replied; probably until he is dead....

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haggling a huckster’s horse trade
ignoring imaginary ideas of Iodine’s
joyful jubilant jabbering jabberwocky
kibitzing kickapoo kindnesses toward Kelly
lambasting Lilliputin leprechauns leaving Larry...

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Saturday

finds me on a pew

of wishes, haggling among

mystic stars for an intercession.

As twilight dimmed, I rambled,

“Will my love return?”

The beams winked.



For the Contest: Give Me A Sign
16 May 2015
J. Torrente...

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Baggy elbow
Whisking a wow
Flapping & flopping
Constrained by conforming
With ambition

Baggy elbow
Blowing a bow
Swinging & swagging 
Hung from haggling
With normalcy

Baggy elbow
Trying a toe
Cracking & creaking
Tired from trusting
Itself...

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Went with the wife to the pawn shop
To earn a little cash
I was in quite a hurry
Made my poor wife dash
I did a bit of haggling
But no luck, I made a groan
When they only offered me 
Ten pounds for the wife
So I had to take her home....

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Buying a Goat


How I negotiated for its slaughter
Was not a matter for plain laughter
Haggling, it chanced a sire activity,	
Last before the fatalistic disability!
He is charging more than whole,
Maybe he is selling me the sire role!


JM

2nd February 2014...

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Battle of the Sexes??

Amorphous metrosexuals haggling over who’s going to hold the bags.


Sight seeing

Never ask directions of a man standing naked in a kayak


Hick up

Whiskey never asks permission of the permissive.


So sew

Thirty-three thimbles teetered on the table top.


Knothead

He drove the nail from one side of town to the other.


John G. Lawless
12/10/2015

submitted to – One liners 6,7,8,9,10
sponsor – Bev Smith...

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