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— Recent Poems —

• I wrote your name on a piece of paper

  by Jason (i), Typo Brahe (ii), Miss MoneyPenny (iii), Piglet 2 (iv), Agatha’s Crispy (v), and Skizerp (vi)

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  I wrote your name on a piece of paper

  II

  In ink that promised to be indelible

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  Written on the pages of your heart

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  And penned neatly across your butt cheeks

  V

  Tattoo ink pouring into thine cheeks

  VI

  Sea otters floating down the river
• my friend and i began to think

  by andy (i, iii, v), and burke (ii, iv)

  I

  my friend and i began to think

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  And franckled on the limber link

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  Our rambling on-ramp ramrods Rambo-ed Rimbau

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  Roverrandom riverrun revelry remembrance roped him in

  V

  and the samoans laughed and laughed
• Listen to the hemidemisemibreve, kay?

  by Chris (i), Kevin (ii), Trey (iii), Jason (iv), Dave (v), Stephanie (vi), and Abbie (vii)

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  Listen to the hemidemisemibreve, kay?

  II

  Follow down the ouncespounds and drownsarounds

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  Take a left turn once in pwnytown.

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  Don't look up; they'll stare you down.

  V

  Just enough to silence your sounds

  VI

  They fall within reach and then float away

  VII

  Like a drop of rain outside my windowpane
• I was walking along in my sing-song way

  by Beth (i), Mike! (ii), Kyle (iii), kevin (iv), and Bethany (v)

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  I was walking along in my sing-song way

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  with unbuttoned vest buttons, some buttoned wrong ways

  III

  shoes torn and tattered dancing in the suns rays

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  the closing moon ensocks their folds like a dryer's smell

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  They sleep like babes that have drank their mother's milk.
• Only crumbs were left on the empty plate.

  by Linda (i), Catherine (ii), Nancy (iii), Sally (iv), and Susan (v)

  I

  Only crumbs were left on the empty plate.

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  No silver, no gold, no prints of what did hold

  III

  I look to the trees for proof of living there

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  whose leaves and I breathe the same air.

  V

  Large, dripping shadows lapped my feet