Vending Virtuoso Gifts

'It won't take bitcoins.'

Vending machines read: Snacks/Coffee/Stare out the window.

Insert bills facing up.

Honest Vending

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"I'm afraid you have a condition called 'googly-eyes'."

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

"Whine and cheezed party."

"Hey, there's Sara, padding her college-entrance résumé!"

'Apparently it's part of the evolutionary process!'

"This is nice. You have your knitting and I have my vodka."

"Nobody listens to me complain quite like you do."

'Coleridge'

'The other kids at school say I might need glasses, Dad.'

Poetry repairman

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

'Aha! I think I figured out the headache problem, one of these things is pointed the other way. This would explain the double vision.'

"This one's for volunteering for field trips. This one's for planning the class holiday parties. . ."

Writer

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

Writer Blinds Shakespeare in Shame.

'Crikey, you've got to have good eye-sight to look through those glasses, haven't you?'

"By the way, about your presentation...Management has made a surprise visit."

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev

'They call me the 'grandfather' of Hip-Hop!'

'You've had the eye exam. Now buy the t-shirt!'

Dante Alighieri

'I lost my shoe, but I got my foot in the door.'

"You've got to give Hunter top marks for presentation."

'Every time I manage to learn the second verse of a song, I forget the first one.'

"It's the poet in him trying to get out."

Emily Dickinson

"This is the Upper East Side, sir. We don’t sell ‘well’ vodka."

'You're a poet? I've got a great simile for you.'