Repair Shop (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I can remember it so well his small one-room repair shop in the back corner of our back yard with ...
I can remember it so well his small one-room repair shop in the back corner of our back yard with ...
There was something about it the way he had things just so, from the start a level, freshly cut boards ...
That is what the bright neon sign read this bit of fun, this whimsy this place Leno would love to ...
Meticulous was the word That came to mom and me Simultaneously to describe Dad and how he approached almost Everything ...
Perched and posed for viewing in your shop smooth and feminine cool metal and shine Bow and breast subtle calf ...
A hole in the wall shop, Counter and seller Plastic cups and pitchers A bit of rum, a bunch of ...
What does it mean that his first friend was an imaginary friend? How did that fact shape his world and ...
Heads snap at the Yankee white boy Anachronistic and jarring Tie dyed top hat Garish and loud Quilted and heavy ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
Down south there is a curio-shop Unknown to many men; Thereat do I intend to stop When I am south ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York ...
Though skilled in Latin and in Greek, And earning fifty cents a week, Such knowledge, and the income, too, Should ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
A NEIGHBOR of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the ...
I'll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor; 'Is name, it ...
The day after Christmas, young Albert Were what's called, confined to his bed, With a tight kind of pain in ...
Mr. Ramsbottom went to the races, A thing as he'd ne'er done before, And as luck always follers beginners, Won ...
One day, little Albert Ramsbottom To see 'ow much money 'e'd got Stuck a knife in 'is money-box slot 'ole ...
They lived apart for three long years, Bill Barnes and Nell his wife; He took his joy from other girls, ...
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a ...
The cliff sprang from the sea at end of Hostel Beach, if the tide was out you'd reach a tiny ...
He wrapped them carefully, neatly in costly green silk. Roses of ruby, lilies of pearl, violets of amethyst. As he ...
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
Britannia needs no Boulevards, No spaces wide and gay: Her march was through the crooked streets Along the narrow way. ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
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