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Sunday, February 10th, 2019The narrator sits
in the booth surrounded by
ghosts of characters.
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The narrator sits
in the booth surrounded by
ghosts of characters.
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Surly manager
barks at servers, customers
to spread her bad cheer.
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A yearbook full of
bimbos wearing blackface who
grow up to be pols.
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It is not enough
to claim our past misdeeds but
to learn from them, too.
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The snooze button is
a mere suggestion. Fatigue
is the only clock.
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To motivate folks,
“Well, someone’s gotta do it.”
History is made.
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Stop buying and start
making. Imagination
fuels the best presents.
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Ten years of tweeting
gets you a dumb hashtag and
some aching fingers.
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They teach to the test,
the test that measures how well
students fill bubbles.
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Struck hard by a muse,
the words flowed with grace and ease
till they came up dry.
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The heat and AC,
the escalators, leaky
ceilings, sewage flow.
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A place to store junk.
A place to pick up bought junk.
A place to junk junk.
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Trudge in a circle
around empty milk cartons
while shaking textbooks.
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Holding a kitten.
Finishing a marathon.
And eating ice cream.
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We fail to reckon
what we put in motion with
choices, abstentions.
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