Supermarket Frustration
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Shopping today was a right pain
Stopping in aisles, searching again
Trying to guide useless trollies
Buying stuff like chips and lollies
Strained up high to the topmost shelf
Drained all my st...
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Categories:
trollies, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Armageddon
...Turned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A
My TV depicting an end, clear...
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Categories:
trollies, christmas, war,
Form: Rhyme
40000 cartloads of horse manure
...i printed off
all of my poems
i distributed them
at the traffic lights
no one opened their car windows
except one poem i stuffed in a dog's face
a child laughed at me from his back seat
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Categories:
trollies, beach, best friend, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Armageddon
...Turned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A
My TV depicting an end, clear...
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Categories:
trollies, christmas, december, western,
Form: Rhyme
Living In Brooklyn
...Flatbush . . . Bedford Stuyvesant . . . Saint Jerome's . . .
Our Lady of Good Counsel School . . . The Sisters of Mercy . . . The Franciscan Brothers.
Double features at the Farragut movie on Satur...
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Categories:
trollies, change, childhood, culture, growing
Form: Free verse
Nobody Told Me
...They came as dawn's fresh light fell upon the land.
With their hard hats and high viz jackets.
Busy men clamour and plot,
Measure and scratch,
Cigarette smoke floats up high.
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Categories:
trollies, childhood, social,
Form: Elegy
It's Christmas Again
...Dear Family who never call,
Its Christmas again,
And needless to say I dislike you all,
But despite all my loathing.
For your stupid fat faces,
I’ve wrote you a poem,
All full of airs and ...
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Categories:
trollies, family, funny, christmas, me,
Form: Free verse