Grocery Shopping

Posted on 2019/04/09 by Bartholomew Barker

Time for our second Two for Tuesday of the month! Pick one prompt or use both…your choice!

Write a love poem. All you need is love.
Write an anti-love poem. Or not.

Remember: There are many forms of love: romantic love, friend and family love, love of being alive, etc.

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Grocery Shopping

I love grocery shopping
in a strange land
and not buying a thing.

I’ve been inoculated
to the whorish marketing
I see around town

but drop me in a foreign
city and I’m a sugar-buzzed
boy in the cereal aisle.

New! really means new
and I allow the bright colors
to attract my wandering eye.

If I can’t read like the locals
it’s even more exciting.
Show me baby riding a bear

over a word I can’t pronounce
or symbols I can’t fathom
and I’m in a surreal heaven.

About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is one of the organizers of Living Poetry, a collection of poets and poetry lovers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he makes money as a computer programmer to fund his poetry habit.

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4 Responses to Grocery Shopping

JeanMarie says:

2019/04/10 at 01:23

Nice twist on a cliche prompt. (Brewer does this one every year.) You’re making it look easy. I saw it and skipped it.

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2019/04/10 at 11:59
  
  Thanks. It was difficult to come up with something interesting. I should’ve just written a love poem in March and plugged it in here since I knew the prompt was coming.
  
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The Cheesesellers Wife says:

2019/04/11 at 14:26

I agree!

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2019/04/11 at 14:32
  
  I’m not surprised. I write for an intelligent audience.
  
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