Short Vending Poems

Vending machines- harlots-slot machines.
I always put more into them, then what I received.
Vending machines -harlots- slot machines....

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In goes the money and out comes the choice

   Depending on which button you push

   Life is like a  Vending machine...

   If you don't put something in, you get nothing out!...

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Cloud adrift vending rains 
rainbow bargains 
with somber slate sky 
melts hued joy in eyes 
holding tears sad dew shines.

May 19, 2021
Contest : Charm Me 
Sponsor : Line Gauthier...

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cloud
adrift
vending rains
rainbow bargains
with somber slate sky
melts joy in eyes
selling tears
sad dew
shines

August 5, 2019
Syllable count : 1/2/3/4/5/4/3/2/1
Checked on howmanysyllables.com...

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Do this, this, this, this, this, this, this
She took my phone and began swiping, and poking.
Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam
I watched her buy my pop from a vending machine using Apple Pay.
I had never used it, but it has been installed.
I could have never done it myself.
So I was grateful
Until I tried to do it for myself.
Which I could not do...

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They call it love
We sit in the hospital waiting room
when your name is called
You get up slowly still wearing a crutch.
You walk a bit lopsided.
Your coat is inside out
this is because it’s raining
and you want to protect the colour.
You are elderly now, but still beautiful inside.
Feel like getting up embracing you,
but instead get up and have coffee
in the vending machine....

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Butt ugly critter
Don’t see your dinner in me
Rolled up magazine
Mr Bug don’t think me mean
I’m not a vending machine

Butt ugly critter
My manic swipe went astray
Gin and tonic flew
Be afraid, I’ll get you too
I shan’t be dinner for you

Butt ugly critter
I know you’re somewhere near
Flat you should have been
Back of the neck, went unseen
Seems I’m a vending machine



21 August 2021
Contest: A Buggy Tanka
Sponsor: M. L. Kiser...

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The vending machines
They are everywhere
Where snack bars are not
Hospitals have them handy
So does car dealers shops

When someone puts money
Into the vending machine
Then the knob is pulled
Nothing happens then
It does not fall down

so the foot comes out
Ready to kick the machine 
Or it is shaken 
With no results shown
It is out of order

A sign should have been
Taped to the glass door
Upset the person
Tries again and again
No money returned...

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Vending machines are so irritating--
     mechanical contraptions
     designed to fail
So, they take your money
     and hold their product
     from your grasp.
You stomp and scream into deaf slots
     to no avail,
     leave a post-it note
     for whomever--
But expectations run low that you will
     receive a refund,
     your product,
     or a coupon
For a future purchase
     from a...
     guess what...
Another vending machine!!!


written June 4, 2021...

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In public exchanges, they rarely make their scenes
since they are rejected by most vending machines.
The United States Mint curtailed their production.
Numbers in circulation have faced reduction.
Just how many are out there, no one really knows.
These days, they can’t even be found in casinos.
If you ever find one of these, don’t let it go.
People rarely spend these.  They hardly ever show.
This coin bearing the face of John F. Kennedy
is still considered as legal tender money....

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