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Checkout Line Psychotic

I'm fine thanks
just a little tired


I won't give you the slightest
warning
when you scream into my face
when I feel your
hatred
spray my cheek
I'll break your face
with my forehead
then make you beg
to keep your life

Plastic please
not paper


woman or man young or old
it doesn't matter
who or what you are
or where it is
if you slap me across the face
in all the world there'll be no place
where you can hide
from my vengeance

no price checks thanks
if it's not barcoded
I don't want it


And do not think for one
moment that the
revenge
I take would in any way
be limited to you
for I leave no enemies at my back
no siblings parents spouse or children
that could grow
into another threat

Is that on sale?
I thought it was


All will
die
homes burned
businesses gone
lives erased
your family
reduced
to battered corpses
rotting in the sun

it's buy one
get one free


So the next time  you want to
rage
at strangers in
the checkout line think twice
the next time you
threaten
harm or death to innocents
buying groceries
think carefully
really
very
carefully
because next time
the citizen that
you're trying to intimidate
just might be me

Yeah honey...
that's credit
not debit


— Race_9togo, Oct 13, 2009

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Region, Country: Earth Vicinity (within a five light-year radius), ZZC

Favorite Poets: John Donne, T.S. Eliot, Serendipity, Emily Dickenson, Kailashana, Charles Bukowski, Kabir, Rett, Dalton, W. B. Yeats, William Blake, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many other Neopoet poets; Neopoet has heavily influenced my poetry and my ability to write it well.

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Seren

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dear Jim

Have you ever seen the movie the punisher ??? well this poem reminded me of that, with a little of sin city for good measure well done nothing like payback :) lol love and hugs Jayne x x
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Ink Dragon

16 years 7 months ago

Jim,

this is really clever, the casual, everyday conversation in italics sets off the madness of the situation. No place like stores for a fight, eh? Like that time when I moved a trolley that was blocking my path and had a couple breathing swear words down my neck for the rest of my shopping... you never know who turns out to be a maniac, do you? Yours, ~Nina