Volume 3 | Summer 2020
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The Chinwagger’s Complaint
These fopdoodles don’t know diddly-squat.Their cattywampus minds can’t distinguishdipthongs from dongles, doohickeys from fartleks.They confuse the mythical with the actual,mistaking…
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Other Little Brother
Boy, you can talk. I hear you over the talking heads on tv newswho aren’t saying anything new anyhownot like…
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Two Covid-19 Poems
1.We keep our distance.We need our space.We work in separate rooms,but we can zoomright up to your face. We are…
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You Will Not
A guidance counselor, parent, or coach,Each utters the same remark, “You will not.”People you believe are beyond reproach,saying to you,…
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The Falls
Out my old new road, past Rocky’s junkyardoverflowing with rusty cars and barking dogs,round the bend at Ottie’s chicken farm,across…
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Treehouse
I look at the ten-inch bolts I just purchased. They are heavy, rust resistant steel rods with a screw end…
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Special
Ever since my son’s diagnosis, I’ve dreamed that I could spill a box of toothpicks and he wouldyell out the right…
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How Do You Know You Can Do Better?
run out of breath, & silence followsrather than the little death. stub my shinson everything. not the bull in a…
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