Poetry Penny Gifts

John Milton

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"There's really not much to obedience school. Just listen up and do what they say."

'A short economics test - if you bought something for

"He has a terrible peanut elegy."

Accountant Manqué

'Would you like your dividend in pennies, nickels or bitcoin?'

'I have a master's in 17th century Dutch feminist poetry, but I've never really used it.'

'To woof or not to woof...'

Rebel without a cause. Poet without a war.

"So you're a poet? I don't get exposed to much poetry these days, unless you talk about the poetry of price-to-earnings ratios."

'I'd be more impressed that you bought me flowers if you didn't take a job as a delivery boy to get the employee discount.'

"I just want to say thanks for getting me into this writing group."

"I'm in here, rereading the great poets, myself among them."

'Instead of a tip, I wrote you a poem.'

"Today no one, and I mean no one, could get the sneakers out of my mouth..."

"I think the idea behind coin collecting is to get one of each kind, not all of the same kind!"

Valentines for Things

Pet Cemetery.

'Think he'll ever spring for the bowl?'

Ben Okri

"Oooh, look — a penny!"

"And the Haves, you might say, are divided into the Gives and Give Nots."

"Look! The name is Donder! Not Donner! It's Donder! Got it? Good!"

Edward Fitzgerald.

Tears

'Maybe so, sir, but our motto is, 'A penny saved is a lot of trouble for nothing.''

"At your opening, I see that you had two glasses of wine, eight pieces of cheddar, eight crackers, and seventeen grapes. That, of course, will have to come off the top of your end."

A dog sits at her typwriter

BOWZ, poetry reading...'Neither good doggie, nor bad dog be...'

" 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe fifty basis points."

"You don't have to spend a lot of money to have a good time?"