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Alimony:
The self stripped of alimonies, stripped of pearls - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"
Appraise:
Appraise the aggravated fortune of the stranded millions - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
Appraising indolent idol's eye - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
And later men appraise me in the quarrels of poets - Humbert Wolfe "Dedication [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
Auction:
Auctioned into bone notes - Zaina Alsous "Dead as a Dodo"
On the auction-block of Manifest Destiny - James Baldwin “Song (for Skip)”
storage locker of unpaid bills and auctioned objects - Asiya Wadud "number four"
Audit:
Always auditing where two and two are five - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"
Balance-Sheet:
As he closed his balance-sheet - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Bank.
Banker:
A gamester's catspaw and a banker's slave - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
How time, the cruel banker, forecloses us - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"
Bargain.
Barter.
Bazaar:
In a court of witch bazars [sic] - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"
In that defunct bazaar - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
Roaming bazaars and sun-weathered ruins - Pramila Venkateswaran "Body Language"
Bill:
storage locker of unpaid bills and auctioned objects - Asiya Wadud "number four"
Borrow.
Bottom Line:
A heart attack on the bottom line - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Determined to drag one down to their bottom line - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
As the bass player knocked out the bottom line - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"
Broker:
And the sword was a broker of doom - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Budget:
Budgets of dream-dust - Edwin Markham "The Wharf of Dreams"
Your decibels and vehement budget - Alice Notley "The New Brain"
Business.
Businessman:
Towering bellows of babbling businessmen - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
Capitalism:
Distinguish capitalism from cannibalism - Jessica Kim "Montage"
The mechanisms of late capitalism keeping us fed - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
Cargo.
Commerce/Commercial.
Commodify:
A commodifying media and its monopolizing imagination - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
Contract.
Corporate:
The corporate symbol of my heart - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"
Entering the negative space of a corporate behemoth - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Which keeps hobos poor and corporations rich - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Cost.
Credit/Discredit.
Customer: See Custom.
Divest:
Divested the attention of the wind - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"
Dividend:
Long dead before Hollywood dividends could ever come - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Need never stir to gather in its dividends - T.S. Eliot "The Hippopotamus"
Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"
Dividends of damage - John Updike "One Tough Keratosis"
Dole.
Down Payment:
Down payments on possibility - torrin a. greathouse "The Body of a Girl Lies on the Asphalt Like the Body of a Girl"
not my down payment or my dowery - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"
A down payment on restraint - Josephine Yu "Plea of the Penitent"
Economy.
Embargo:
The chill embargo of the snow - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Potential Titles: Employment [category].
Enterprise.
Equity:
By equities of self-defence - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
No equity is left among mankind - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The great equity of darkness - Emily Pittinos "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
Exec/Executive:
The ethereal execs in the celestial penthouse - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
The lone executive who has wandered this far into summer - Rita Dove "Vacation"
Expend.
Expense/Expensive.
Export:
Violence exported as luxury - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"
Using the Past's own export vessels - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
Factory.
Fare.
Fee:
Our souls in fee for Circe's glamour - Herve Noel le Breton "The Burden of Lost Souls" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
For-Sale Sign:
The for-sale sign impales the front pasture - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
Frugal.
Fund:
I have no fund of tears to weep - Paul Laurence Dunbar "After the Quarrel" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A fund to train young imps - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Guarantee/Guarantor.
Haggle:
Haggling with contradiction - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"
Huckster:
The base hucksters of sophistry - Tommaso Campanella "XXXVII. On the Lord's Prayer. No.1" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
A huckster shall not be acquitted of sin - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 26" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Import:
An accidental import from Spain - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
Wretched importers of the sublime - Fady Joudah "Every Hour Has an Animal"
To import forgetfulness in me - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXII"
Indemnify:
Of any possible disaster indemnified routine - Elizabeth Bradfield "Signing on Again"
Industry.
Insure/Insurance.
Interest.
Invest.
Invoice:
Will contact you with a separate invoice - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"
Lease.
Ledger.
Lend/Lent.
Lessee:
Pours a gloomy torrent on the pale lessees - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Loan.
Mall.
Markdown:
Make a fleeting run through the markdowns - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
Market/Marketplace.
Mart.
Meed.
Mercenary:
Outposts filled with Saturn's mercenaries - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
Whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"
Merchandise:
Strange merchants of a stranger merchandise - Elinor Jenkins "Wind-pedlars"
The great machinery of merchandising - Stuart Kestenbaum "Prayer in the Strip Mall, Bangor, Maine"
Winter with its gloomy merchandise - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid
Our merchandise with tansy bound - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Merchant.
Mortgage:
A mortgage statement wrapped around an artichoke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
The mortgage closed, outruns the lease - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"
Taking out a next mortgage on my soul - Kwame Dawes "Alado Seanadra"
Mortgaged the brightest corners - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"
Parlay:
how to parlay a no good into something better - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
Patron.
Pay/Paid.
Payment.
Peddle.
Premium:
Pay your premium of vulgarity - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon
Prepaid:
Cloaked in a prepaid identity - Gregory Pardlo "Epistemology of the Phone Booth"
Price.
Produce/Product.
Profit.
Property.
Prosper.
Purchase.
Receipt:
A life's receipts in black and white - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"
Those unreadable receipts at the bottom of a purse - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"
Receipts blurred beyond recognition - Stuart Kestenbaum "Starting the Subaru at Five Below"
No space for receipt of a fly - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"
Remit:
And remit them not in peace - John Donne "Love's Growth"
Remunerate:
Remuneration inadequate to our worth - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"
In the habit of tardy remunerations - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"
Rent.
Repay:
A tiger well repay the trouble and expense - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Tiger"
The debt which 'tis your duty to repay - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
To repay the benefits which Hercules conferred - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Who with ingratituded repays my kindness - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
To be repaid by darker hate - "The Misanthrope"
Have repaid my love with guile - "The Misanthrope"
Repays their cost of tears - Isaac Rosenberg "My Hours"
Revenue:
Eternal revenue of memory and feeling - Henri Cole "Dune"
For the revenues of Menelaus far too scanty proved - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Sale.
Secondhand:
Naught but a second-hand dealer in Light - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"
Who appreciates secondhand revelations of wolves - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
Sell/Sold.
Shop.
Solicit:
Were all the Graces to solicit me - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Goaded by soliciting light - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Tinder so long unsolicited by flame - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Spend/Spent.
Statement.
Stock Exchange:
That roam the stock exchanges of the earth - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
Stock Market:
Disintegrating worldwide stock markets - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
Sue:
Raved and sued to every prince in vain - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And sued for fragments from our board - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Sue before your crystal throne - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"
Surcharge:
Rain-surcharged and sun-forsaken - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"
Swap:
Swap you last-minute with a dream - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Swapped prayer for sharp screams - Ajanae Dawkins "How to Witness a Miracle Without Converting"
Where we swapped faces in haste - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Syndicate:
Doomsday's a syndicated affair - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Tax.
Tenant.
Thrift.
Till:
From the town and the field and the till and the cart - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXIII"
Tithe:
Render up in song your tithes - Countee Cullen "Dialogue"
Scarce a tithe of all that host that won back home again - "Holger Danske and Stout Didrik" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Ten by ten tithes have been paid in a dazzling of leaves - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Lay the gold tithings barren - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"
Toll.
Trade.
Transaction:
On our small, transactional earth - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Unpaid:
The unpaid labor of angels - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"
An unpaid wrecking crew - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"
And planted in plots paid and unpaid - Edward Hirsch "Liberty Brass"
Wallet.
Ware.
Worth.
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Advertise.
Alimony:
The self stripped of alimonies, stripped of pearls - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"
Appraise:
Appraise the aggravated fortune of the stranded millions - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
Appraising indolent idol's eye - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
And later men appraise me in the quarrels of poets - Humbert Wolfe "Dedication [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
Auction:
Auctioned into bone notes - Zaina Alsous "Dead as a Dodo"
On the auction-block of Manifest Destiny - James Baldwin “Song (for Skip)”
storage locker of unpaid bills and auctioned objects - Asiya Wadud "number four"
Audit:
Always auditing where two and two are five - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"
Balance-Sheet:
As he closed his balance-sheet - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Bank.
Banker:
A gamester's catspaw and a banker's slave - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
How time, the cruel banker, forecloses us - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"
Bargain.
Barter.
Bazaar:
In a court of witch bazars [sic] - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"
In that defunct bazaar - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
Roaming bazaars and sun-weathered ruins - Pramila Venkateswaran "Body Language"
Bill:
storage locker of unpaid bills and auctioned objects - Asiya Wadud "number four"
Borrow.
Bottom Line:
A heart attack on the bottom line - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Determined to drag one down to their bottom line - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
As the bass player knocked out the bottom line - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"
Broker:
And the sword was a broker of doom - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Budget:
Budgets of dream-dust - Edwin Markham "The Wharf of Dreams"
Your decibels and vehement budget - Alice Notley "The New Brain"
Business.
Businessman:
Towering bellows of babbling businessmen - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
Capitalism:
Distinguish capitalism from cannibalism - Jessica Kim "Montage"
The mechanisms of late capitalism keeping us fed - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
Cargo.
Commerce/Commercial.
Commodify:
A commodifying media and its monopolizing imagination - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
Contract.
Corporate:
The corporate symbol of my heart - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"
Entering the negative space of a corporate behemoth - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Which keeps hobos poor and corporations rich - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Cost.
Credit/Discredit.
Customer: See Custom.
Divest:
Divested the attention of the wind - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"
Dividend:
Long dead before Hollywood dividends could ever come - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Need never stir to gather in its dividends - T.S. Eliot "The Hippopotamus"
Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"
Dividends of damage - John Updike "One Tough Keratosis"
Dole.
Down Payment:
Down payments on possibility - torrin a. greathouse "The Body of a Girl Lies on the Asphalt Like the Body of a Girl"
not my down payment or my dowery - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"
A down payment on restraint - Josephine Yu "Plea of the Penitent"
Economy.
Embargo:
The chill embargo of the snow - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Potential Titles: Employment [category].
Enterprise.
Equity:
By equities of self-defence - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
No equity is left among mankind - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The great equity of darkness - Emily Pittinos "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
Exec/Executive:
The ethereal execs in the celestial penthouse - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
The lone executive who has wandered this far into summer - Rita Dove "Vacation"
Expend.
Expense/Expensive.
Export:
Violence exported as luxury - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"
Using the Past's own export vessels - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
Factory.
Fare.
Fee:
Our souls in fee for Circe's glamour - Herve Noel le Breton "The Burden of Lost Souls" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
For-Sale Sign:
The for-sale sign impales the front pasture - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
Frugal.
Fund:
I have no fund of tears to weep - Paul Laurence Dunbar "After the Quarrel" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A fund to train young imps - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Guarantee/Guarantor.
Haggle:
Haggling with contradiction - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"
Huckster:
The base hucksters of sophistry - Tommaso Campanella "XXXVII. On the Lord's Prayer. No.1" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
A huckster shall not be acquitted of sin - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 26" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Import:
An accidental import from Spain - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
Wretched importers of the sublime - Fady Joudah "Every Hour Has an Animal"
To import forgetfulness in me - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXII"
Indemnify:
Of any possible disaster indemnified routine - Elizabeth Bradfield "Signing on Again"
Industry.
Insure/Insurance.
Interest.
Invest.
Invoice:
Will contact you with a separate invoice - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"
Lease.
Ledger.
Lend/Lent.
Lessee:
Pours a gloomy torrent on the pale lessees - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Loan.
Mall.
Markdown:
Make a fleeting run through the markdowns - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
Market/Marketplace.
Mart.
Meed.
Mercenary:
Outposts filled with Saturn's mercenaries - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
Whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"
Merchandise:
Strange merchants of a stranger merchandise - Elinor Jenkins "Wind-pedlars"
The great machinery of merchandising - Stuart Kestenbaum "Prayer in the Strip Mall, Bangor, Maine"
Winter with its gloomy merchandise - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid
Our merchandise with tansy bound - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Merchant.
Mortgage:
A mortgage statement wrapped around an artichoke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
The mortgage closed, outruns the lease - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"
Taking out a next mortgage on my soul - Kwame Dawes "Alado Seanadra"
Mortgaged the brightest corners - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"
Parlay:
how to parlay a no good into something better - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
Patron.
Pay/Paid.
Payment.
Peddle.
Premium:
Pay your premium of vulgarity - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon
Prepaid:
Cloaked in a prepaid identity - Gregory Pardlo "Epistemology of the Phone Booth"
Price.
Produce/Product.
Profit.
Property.
Prosper.
Purchase.
Receipt:
A life's receipts in black and white - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"
Those unreadable receipts at the bottom of a purse - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"
Receipts blurred beyond recognition - Stuart Kestenbaum "Starting the Subaru at Five Below"
No space for receipt of a fly - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"
Remit:
And remit them not in peace - John Donne "Love's Growth"
Remunerate:
Remuneration inadequate to our worth - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"
In the habit of tardy remunerations - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"
Rent.
Repay:
A tiger well repay the trouble and expense - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Tiger"
The debt which 'tis your duty to repay - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
To repay the benefits which Hercules conferred - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Who with ingratituded repays my kindness - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
To be repaid by darker hate - "The Misanthrope"
Have repaid my love with guile - "The Misanthrope"
Repays their cost of tears - Isaac Rosenberg "My Hours"
Revenue:
Eternal revenue of memory and feeling - Henri Cole "Dune"
For the revenues of Menelaus far too scanty proved - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Sale.
Secondhand:
Naught but a second-hand dealer in Light - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"
Who appreciates secondhand revelations of wolves - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
Sell/Sold.
Shop.
Solicit:
Were all the Graces to solicit me - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Goaded by soliciting light - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Tinder so long unsolicited by flame - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Spend/Spent.
Statement.
Stock Exchange:
That roam the stock exchanges of the earth - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
Stock Market:
Disintegrating worldwide stock markets - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
Sue:
Raved and sued to every prince in vain - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And sued for fragments from our board - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Sue before your crystal throne - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"
Surcharge:
Rain-surcharged and sun-forsaken - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"
Swap:
Swap you last-minute with a dream - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Swapped prayer for sharp screams - Ajanae Dawkins "How to Witness a Miracle Without Converting"
Where we swapped faces in haste - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Syndicate:
Doomsday's a syndicated affair - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Tax.
Tenant.
Thrift.
Till:
From the town and the field and the till and the cart - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXIII"
Tithe:
Render up in song your tithes - Countee Cullen "Dialogue"
Scarce a tithe of all that host that won back home again - "Holger Danske and Stout Didrik" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Ten by ten tithes have been paid in a dazzling of leaves - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Lay the gold tithings barren - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"
Toll.
Trade.
Transaction:
On our small, transactional earth - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Unpaid:
The unpaid labor of angels - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"
An unpaid wrecking crew - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"
And planted in plots paid and unpaid - Edward Hirsch "Liberty Brass"
Wallet.
Ware.
Worth.
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
