"redbox" poems - Hello Poetry

Hey there, baby! I got what you need. You came into my store - I got what you need. You bought a stick of gum - Do you want a soda with that? You searched for a pair of shoes - Don't you think these shoes are nice? You liked a post about Darwin - Darwin books: Half-off! You listened to the Rolling Stones - Try some Jeff Beck - I'm a Genius, I should know you better than yourself. You thought about ****** - I can sell you seventeen ways to get away with it. You thought about suicide - Better buy one last pleasure before you go - you won't be needing that money anyway, Have you made your final arrangements? You thought about *** - I know you did You typed "re"(demption) Did you mean "Redbox"? Here are the new releases. I got what you need.

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Sep 11, 2012

Sep 11, 2012 at 3:51 AM UTC

brandon-humphreys

Cookies

Hey there, baby! I got what you need. You came into my store - I got what you need. You bought a stick of gum - Do you want a soda with that? You searched for a pair of shoes - Don't you think these shoes are nice? You liked a post about Darwin - Darwin books: Half-off! You listened to the Rolling Stones - Try some Jeff Beck - I'm a Genius, I should know you better than yourself. You thought about ****** - I can sell you seventeen ways to get away with it. You thought about suicide - Better buy one last pleasure before you go - you won't be needing that money anyway, Have you made your final arrangements? You thought about *** - I know you did You typed "re"(demption) Did you mean "Redbox"? Here are the new releases. I got what you need.

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Moving in was a ***** Three tiny flights of stairs. Night three and we finally had dinner. Macaroni and cheese on the floor. I was sad for the first few months. Crying on the futon. Crying in my bed. Crying on the floor. Crying in the shower. Crying on your shoulder. Netflix, Redbox, and Cooltv. Dragging bags of clothes to the laundry room. You and Cody played guitar. We had a live show every night. You wrote beautiful music. And stopped singing if I cried. Turning conversations into poetry. You introduced me to Becca. Little did I know, she'd be my best friend. Getting drunk. Getting high. Smoking out of bongs. Smoking joints. Smoking bowls. Smoking blunts. Trying to find something to smoke. The light in the bathroom stopped working. We had to smack it for it to turn on. That stopped working too. The candle caught on fire. Your drunk friend threw it into the sink. I almost killed him. We slept together sometimes. We slept apart. We slept with other people. I took out my dreads to make myself feel better. Shang was in West Virginia the whole time. But he was in the living room every day. We rolled...so many times. Laughing at everything. Going on toilet paper missions. The futon broke. New rule: no *** on the futon. Playing Circle of Death, we got to know each other. The ring of beer stains around the coffee table. Bats chirping right outside my window. We discovered our super powers. I don't remember my birthday party. The Christmas party. Justin got me drunk on white Russians. Slow dancing with Brian. Mouth **** Jello shots. You never carved the turkey cookie. New Year's Eve someone kicked in the door. It was broken for months. The next few months were the last ones. I didn't want to leave. The apartment was our home. We ****** up, we grew up, we threw up. There's no place home.

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Oct 23, 2013

Oct 23, 2013 at 3:19 PM UTC

ellen-bee

The Apartment

Moving in was a ***** Three tiny flights of stairs. Night three and we finally had dinner. Macaroni and cheese on the floor. I was sad for the first few months. Crying on the futon. Crying in my bed. Crying on the floor. Crying in the shower. Crying on your shoulder. Netflix, Redbox, and Cooltv. Dragging bags of clothes to the laundry room. You and Cody played guitar. We had a live show every night. You wrote beautiful music. And stopped singing if I cried. Turning conversations into poetry. You introduced me to Becca. Little did I know, she'd be my best friend. Getting drunk. Getting high. Smoking out of bongs. Smoking joints. Smoking bowls. Smoking blunts. Trying to find something to smoke. The light in the bathroom stopped working. We had to smack it for it to turn on. That stopped working too. The candle caught on fire. Your drunk friend threw it into the sink. I almost killed him. We slept together sometimes. We slept apart. We slept with other people. I took out my dreads to make myself feel better. Shang was in West Virginia the whole time. But he was in the living room every day. We rolled...so many times. Laughing at everything. Going on toilet paper missions. The futon broke. New rule: no *** on the futon. Playing Circle of Death, we got to know each other. The ring of beer stains around the coffee table. Bats chirping right outside my window. We discovered our super powers. I don't remember my birthday party. The Christmas party. Justin got me drunk on white Russians. Slow dancing with Brian. Mouth **** Jello shots. You never carved the turkey cookie. New Year's Eve someone kicked in the door. It was broken for months. The next few months were the last ones. I didn't want to leave. The apartment was our home. We ****** up, we grew up, we threw up. There's no place home.

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I prefer staples over tape. I prefer someone who's high over somebdy drunk. I prefer fixing the roof in the rain. I prefer mashed potatoes. I prefer teling my secrets to a plush otter than someone who can sell me. I prefer loving her, rather than him. I prefer a story that's not quite readable. I prefer Paramore. I prefer waking up when it's still morning. I prefer the drumming of rain that spans over 24 hours than a year of sun. I prefer sticking up for myself. I prefer picking my own battles. I prefer power outtages as it snows. I prefer wondering about people. I prefer yeling to the oppression. I prefer cuddles when I know you're not perfectly okay. I prefer ties over skirts. I prefer Polaroids over selfies. I prefer to tie my shoes constantly. I prefer cnvincing mysef she's on another trip she'll return from, rather than believing she was robbed from us. I prefer Sora. I prefer masculinity on myself. I prefer RedBox movie nights. I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility that we came out to be that high school couple who beat the odds and made it to forever.

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Apr 26, 2014

Apr 26, 2014 at 2:38 PM UTC

SoraHorizon

Possibilities

I prefer staples over tape. I prefer someone who's high over somebdy drunk. I prefer fixing the roof in the rain. I prefer mashed potatoes. I prefer teling my secrets to a plush otter than someone who can sell me. I prefer loving her, rather than him. I prefer a story that's not quite readable. I prefer Paramore. I prefer waking up when it's still morning. I prefer the drumming of rain that spans over 24 hours than a year of sun. I prefer sticking up for myself. I prefer picking my own battles. I prefer power outtages as it snows. I prefer wondering about people. I prefer yeling to the oppression. I prefer cuddles when I know you're not perfectly okay. I prefer ties over skirts. I prefer Polaroids over selfies. I prefer to tie my shoes constantly. I prefer cnvincing mysef she's on another trip she'll return from, rather than believing she was robbed from us. I prefer Sora. I prefer masculinity on myself. I prefer RedBox movie nights. I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility that we came out to be that high school couple who beat the odds and made it to forever.

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you taught me to drive you taught me that family is most important that adventures are always there if you look you love me out in the driveway teaching me how to shoot hoops in the house eating cereal out of a mixing bowl you told me I could be whatever I wanted to be kissing mom on the forehead you tell mom beautiful things that make her smile hearing the garage door and running to give you a hug laughing and crying "if someone gives you an opportunity, take it" waking up to a knock on my door on a Sunday "I made breakfast" running at 5am and talking about life and why the earth turns eating oats on the back porch on our red chairs redbox and pizza and football getting a drink from the hose you could make the meanest tacos putting a big arm around me and saying "I sure am proud of you beautiful girl of mine" crying wishing hoping wanting wanting this back thank you I love you and miss you daddy college is hard but I will make you proud. sincerely, your little girl.

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Oct 10, 2015

Oct 10, 2015 at 2:18 AM UTC

quiet-pointe

Dear Dad

you taught me to drive you taught me that family is most important that adventures are always there if you look you love me out in the driveway teaching me how to shoot hoops in the house eating cereal out of a mixing bowl you told me I could be whatever I wanted to be kissing mom on the forehead you tell mom beautiful things that make her smile hearing the garage door and running to give you a hug laughing and crying "if someone gives you an opportunity, take it" waking up to a knock on my door on a Sunday "I made breakfast" running at 5am and talking about life and why the earth turns eating oats on the back porch on our red chairs redbox and pizza and football getting a drink from the hose you could make the meanest tacos putting a big arm around me and saying "I sure am proud of you beautiful girl of mine" crying wishing hoping wanting wanting this back thank you I love you and miss you daddy college is hard but I will make you proud. sincerely, your little girl.

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I want to walk to convienet stores at 2 am I want to rent movies from redbox at 3 am I want to play music on the streets at 4 am I want to slow dance with myself at 5 am I want to crash on a strangers couch at 6 am And I want to steal their houseplants at 7 am I want to come back to that convenient store at 8 am I want to check every isle and finally leave at 9 am I want to go home with no questions at 10 am I want to spend time alone in the streets I never want to live to see pm

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Jul 24, 2014

Jul 24, 2014 at 2:35 AM UTC

shpresa

Time

I want to walk to convienet stores at 2 am I want to rent movies from redbox at 3 am I want to play music on the streets at 4 am I want to slow dance with myself at 5 am I want to crash on a strangers couch at 6 am And I want to steal their houseplants at 7 am I want to come back to that convenient store at 8 am I want to check every isle and finally leave at 9 am I want to go home with no questions at 10 am I want to spend time alone in the streets I never want to live to see pm

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long before the days of the netflix streaming services people either had cable on demand or got netflix dvds like a mail order redbox but i grew up with public television pbs the the public broadcast station filled with stories and shows that wanted to teach while entertaining liberty kids taught me history while cyberchase showed me math can save the world when it's important arthur allowed children everywhere to see that we all are equal and we all can be friends because everybody that you see has an original point of view and i say hey! why have we abandoned the important lessons for the sake of entertainment my little brother makes jokes about logan paul recording and exploiting a suicide victim my little brother told me he wants to be the next bachelor on abc my little brother called me a ** when i was nine years old like he is i asked my mom for extra television time so i could tune into fetch with ruff ruffman at 3pm and see science in action i begged for a game boy not for madden17 i read by the light of a little reading lamp not with a blue glowing light exuding from a new samsung tablet i'm not saying technology is bad or that we should regress i'm saying our children our siblings and maybe even our friends are growing up ******* up and we can change that but we never do i want to tell my children dragon tales dragon tales not to turn off youtube before bed i want children now to learn before they even enter a classroom but i suspect that no one will listen or even stop to care

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Sep 11, 2018

Sep 11, 2018 at 7:35 PM UTC

ells_roses

children today

long before the days of the netflix streaming services people either had cable on demand or got netflix dvds like a mail order redbox but i grew up with public television pbs the the public broadcast station filled with stories and shows that wanted to teach while entertaining liberty kids taught me history while cyberchase showed me math can save the world when it's important arthur allowed children everywhere to see that we all are equal and we all can be friends because everybody that you see has an original point of view and i say hey! why have we abandoned the important lessons for the sake of entertainment my little brother makes jokes about logan paul recording and exploiting a suicide victim my little brother told me he wants to be the next bachelor on abc my little brother called me a ** when i was nine years old like he is i asked my mom for extra television time so i could tune into fetch with ruff ruffman at 3pm and see science in action i begged for a game boy not for madden17 i read by the light of a little reading lamp not with a blue glowing light exuding from a new samsung tablet i'm not saying technology is bad or that we should regress i'm saying our children our siblings and maybe even our friends are growing up ******* up and we can change that but we never do i want to tell my children dragon tales dragon tales not to turn off youtube before bed i want children now to learn before they even enter a classroom but i suspect that no one will listen or even stop to care

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