Today’s prompt is to write a poem that responds, in some way, to another.
My poem is inspired by the first stanza of too sweet, by Charles Bukowski.
Supermarket Soap Opera for years, your daily routine included a trip to the grocery store where you knew every clerk by name for years, I visited the same store weekly, and knew no one though they all knew me but no one ever suspected the connection between us two— our marriage I finally learned all your favorite checkers’ names and mentioned you to them and they all said, no way; you couldn’t possibly be married to that guy I don’t know why until the day we walked in together and said, “see, we told you so”
©ARHuelsenbeck 2021
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I loved this one.. left us with a little mystery!
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Ahh. 🙂 I love it that you respond to Buk in this way. Your poem reminded me of my grandfather who used to tell every clerk in his store, especially the butcher, that his wife – my grandma – is beating him on a regular basis if he doesn’t bring home the premium goods, especially the meat. So when she came to the store, she was getting some strange looks. 😀
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This is so funny to me, my husband does all the shopping and the one time we went to our local store together, everyone was staring, they couldn’t believe we were together!🤣
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