Short Soho Poems

did Benday
give ground to
Roy

Vicki by Lichtenstein

http://www.soho-art.com/cgi-bin/shop/shop.pl?fid=1057974456&cgifunction=form...

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A girl in Soho named Millie
Was hanging around for Willy
John Dough came along
But something was wrong -
Trust Millie to Piccadilly!...

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        pissssssssst
            kisssst
         in the a.m.
    on Noel St. Soho

           lisssssst: 
    Traveler'z Checks
    Brolly 

                    (;}...

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        ~ aka 'Better Duck' ~
  
   ‘Goose-a-Go-Go’ opened in Kokomo
   Fans demanded it move to Chicago
      A resounding success, luv
      We expected no less of
   A strip-teasing platypus from Soho
...

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Alice In Chains
Blind Melon
Cold
Danzig
Escape The Fate
Foo Fighters
Garbage
Hole
If
John Lennon
KMFDM
Led Zeppelin
Metallic
Nirvana
Oasis
Pearl Jam
Qual
Radiohead
Smashing Pumpkins
Tom Petty
Used
Violent Soho
Weezer
Xunn
Yellowcard
Zeek...

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Nights infusion
bleary eyed rivals
in Soho tweed
Pharaohs joke was here
Denim clad oxymorons
with spotlight eyes
Archways lean close
as sticks befuddle
their spark of epiphany
A jewelled silence
captures the gangsters in silhouette
Freaks five a penny
prolapse the night...

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I'm not amused
How you abuse
The TV that you watch
Take the volume up a notch.
How  you surf through each 
channel,
As you watch in your
flannel.
It gets to be old,
Especially in a household.
Enough is wnough,
You think you're tough stuff.
I can't let it go,
Until you're in Soho!...

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The unknown and the famous
the Entrepreneur.
The working class the homeless
the rich and the poor.

The weird the misfits
the wise and the fools.
All nations all genders
I've embraced one and all.

Every faith all religions
different cultures and beliefs.
Soho square in London
Is my haven of peace....

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i saw you i saw you
                       shameless thieves ebony hoods
                       smirking in the night



                            June 1, 2020
                              1:15am PST
                       
                              Poem#1,311


      Poet's Notes : Soho is an exclusive shopping center in NYC...

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The Printer takes our written words and with a little ink,
He tells the world in black and white what we all think,

He may serve for finances or business of his own,
With Soho notes and member cards of where to write or phone.

But one or the other, his importance is supreme,
Because his craft is needed in promoting every gym,

His letters spell the words we mean or hide the ones we think,
Whenever we speak in terms of the Soho printers ink....

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St Paul’s gazes out over the modernising City
Fearful of the vicious Shard
The Abbey and Houses of Parliament
Keep Westminster alive
But now under the gaze of a watchful Eye
The hustle of the restless Oxford Street
Is matched by the bustle of Soho
The British Museum still reigns supreme in Bloomsbury
Despite constant tourist invasion
On the river the Cutty Sark is rehabilitated
Tower Bridge still opens
The Boat Race can be seen every year and Cambridge can win...

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Ernest Dowson was a singer of the saddest, tritest tune,
Of the fawning, futile love that poets blame upon the moon,
And his lyrics all were painted on the margin of the page,
So his water-colored lines were barely noticed by his Age.

Wine-and-roses, and Cynara, floating lonesome in the air
Of the foggy yellow Nineties, in a Soho restaurant where
An Italian fickle waitress cracked a poet’s dream, yet made
His exquisite, fragile verses, faintly flower, not to fade....

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