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...'

"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."

Rebel without a cause. Poet without a war.

Siegfried Sassoon

'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.'

Wussapalooka

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

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

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

'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..."

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

"Oooh, look — a penny!"

Valentines for Things

Pet Cemetery.

Ben Okri

Poetry Journal. Any good submissions over the internet? No -- Just the usual bloggerel.

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

"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."

Edward Fitzgerald.

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

Tears

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

A dog sits at her typwriter

I used to feel empty and worthless around that heavy guy, too, until I realized, hey, he's just full of pennies!

" '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."

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