Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE TEA TRADER, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON


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THE TEA TRADER, by                    
First Line: Jackson at his counter packing tea
Last Line: In mcconnell's grocery store!
Subject(s): Dreams; Food & Eating; Grocers; Tea; Nightmares


Jackson at his counter packing tea --
Storing little bags away
For the rush hours Saturday.
On the tea-bins' painted faces
Are quaint names and quainter places,
And a Geisha waves her fan
And allures him to Japan!
'Mid the syrups, soaps and sodas
Jackson muses on pagodas,
And the tea's pervasive smell
Works an opiatic spell
On the old clerk's stuffy brain. . . .
He goes sailing to Formosa
And to Java and Hong Kong;
He goes trafficking in Pekoe
And Bohea and Oolong!
Then a voice, "Six lemons, please,
And a pound of English cheese!"
Jackson's ship has come to shore
In McConnell's grocery store!





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