Short Proprietors Poems

Sincere effort they are always giving.
Those guys work hard for a living.
Good service is what their customers demand.
The proprietors wash all laundry by hand.
All of the whites will never look whiter.
Anything with color will never look brighter.
Since they came to this country,
They do their best at the 
CHINESE LAUNDRY...

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Images cascade before us
  Strolling 'long memory lane
Lithe and supple were we back in those days
  Before decades of stresses and strain

I jump high, pluck a leaf from a tree
  You twirl about and fall into me
Shops seem so tiny and quaint
  Proprietors honest, without taint

We stop at the drugstore for a soda
  Seated high atop spin-around stools
Two straws but just one chocolate phosphate
  ~ Puppy lovers who play by the rules...

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COUNTRY STREAM

Gentle flow and sky blue
With a thatch hut reflected
See a multitude of ducks
And they as good as proprietors

Oh the simple wash of it all
Lazy    carefree movement
A country pair stand down stream 
Content      apparently      to do nothing

I would not disturb
My pounding heart      though      goes where
      the stream makes its turn
Where it narrows      darkens      fades
Where it finds downhill and goes wild!

Dave Austin...

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School is a super market
the proprietor hires the premises
prepares parking yard for customers
pays exorbitantly in taxes
goods are labeled with prices
customers pick the affordable
no negotiated interactions
sales executives guide and monitor
guards check out security
ensuring no cheating
preventing any shop-lifting
rich clients eat from restaurants
the rest go hungry, thirsty
what customers carry home
is not the concern of proprietors
money must speak...

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