Two Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]

The Checkout Line 

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Death is not like the checkout line because
People at death do not want to look at the
National Enquirer which many people do
Want to look at it in the checkout line at
The supermarket, Best Buy, or wherever.
 
Death is also not like the checkout line
Because most people don’t think about
Money at their death although there are
Doctor bills but they’re not the dead guy’s
Responsibility any longer, obviously.
 
To sum it up the checkout line and death
Are different but one thing is not different
Which is how once it’s over you are free
To drive out of the parking lot or go to
Heaven if you are dead, or wherever.
 
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
 
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Lump on a log is not an expression
You often hear but as you get older
You’re treated like a lump on a log.
 
If I go to the Starbucks coffee shop
I get treated like a lump on a log
Every time I go in there so as a result
 
I stopped going in there because
I get treated like a lump on a log
Every time I go in there and also
 
If you keep getting treated like a lump
On a log but you keep going in there
You’re like the boy who cried wolf.
 

       

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Author: Mitch Sisskind