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every ice cream topping in the world

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014

The bowl could barely
hold the sprinkles, cereal,
chocolate chips and nuts.

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the ground is leaking

Monday, July 21st, 2014

The broken pipe let
out a gurgling cry for help
to the blacktop street.

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the potato salad express

Sunday, July 20th, 2014

They inched forward, with
hunger pangs and nostrils full
of sweet hickory.

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the nine

Saturday, July 19th, 2014

They sit in judgment,
among us but above us,
the law in their hands.

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square feet squared

Friday, July 18th, 2014

The tiny house grew
room by room, floor by floor, to
be a McMansion.

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tees for mes

Thursday, July 17th, 2014

“Haiku is my life.”
“I’m the realest bitch you know.”
“My eyes are up here.”

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the unadorned bard

Wednesday, July 16th, 2014

Poetry is a
dead end. Perhaps a lute or
a beret would help.

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creatures of habitual offense

Tuesday, July 15th, 2014

Why change, or even
pretend to change, when we all
know we share one fate?

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pie à la road

Monday, July 14th, 2014

They would drive miles for
pie, then drive more miles homeward
discussing said pie.

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running of the bulldogs

Sunday, July 13th, 2014

Around the corner
and down the hallway to the
big bowls of kibble.

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viral

Saturday, July 12th, 2014

The celebration
of the unworthy in an
unironic sense.

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summer school dropout

Friday, July 11th, 2014

If it’s too nice a
day for class in April, it’s
a crime in July.

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her birthday came and went

Thursday, July 10th, 2014

A once special day
had become another date
on the calendar.

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the unintended spring

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

Asphalt wet with a
leak. Precious water wasted
straight to the sewer.

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languid repose

Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

The lumpy couch, the
unmade bed, really any
napping place would do.

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