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Open Poetry #47

Shopping Cart Blues

The_Doctors_Angel_32
Member

since 2011-01-14

Posts 337
Florida, USA

0 posted 2011-01-26 02:25 PM

Theme: How a shopping cart would feel if it were a living thing.
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I am abused everyday by customers,
rolled into car doors,
children, sometimes adults
puke in me like a pail.

Homeless people have run off with me.
I am used until they have no use for me.
Then they leave me in streams
rusting until I am found.

When I am used up,
broken down, when my wheels work no more,
I am finally replaced;
thrown away.

I become junk yard waste,
crushed beyond compare,
just sitting here until
one day I am recycled.

When the family is together, the soul is at peace - Russian Proverb

JerryPat
Senior Member

since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

1 posted 2011-01-26 02:58 PM

Tough being a shopping cart, eh?

~ Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. ~

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

2 posted 2011-01-26 04:44 PM

Well, being recycled is better than nothing at all.
Tough wheeling sometimes.

Eric

Forget the Psychiatrists they just find out all about you and sell you back to yourself!

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

3 posted 2011-01-26 05:49 PM

interesting observations...well written

faithmairee
Senior Member

since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

4 posted 2011-01-26 06:24 PM

LOL...this is the first time i've ever read a poem about a shopping cart...it was entertaining...

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

5 posted 2011-01-26 06:45 PM

Enjoyed, Julie. There is even a poem in a shopping cart's thoughts - as Faith's signature implies! I will be very kind to the next shopping cart I use. Smiles.

Owl

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