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  • Body Shop
    When I come in, my mechanic is eating
    lunch. He doesn't look over the top
    of his newspaper.
    I glance around, hoping that Miss July ...
  • Little Morning Seranade
    Bamboo shoots in a blue pot, tea steeping
    in a tall cup with painted koi on the side.
    Outside my window, the cat stalks a sparrow,
    but is too tender-hearted to lunge. ...
  • Poets Vs. Wildcats
    Coach entreats us to control the clock.
    But how can one not ponder "time's winged
    chariot," or "Time the foe of Man's dominion"?
    Pondering leads to delay of game. ...
  • The Trojan Pony
    It is small, holds only a few boys and girls
    and smells like graham crackers inside.
    There it sits one morning shining in the sun.
    A giant toy. Beyond inviting. Irresistible. ...
  • An Infinite Number Of Monkeys
    After all the Shakespeare, the book
    of poems they type is the saddest
    in history.
    ...
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Away 5 Time 5 Body 5 Believe 4 Sun 4 I Love You 4 Love 4 Open 4 Small 3 Red 3


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Mlnangalama: “sidekicks” by ronald koertge poetry 180: a poem a day for american high schools, hosted by billy collins, u.s. poet laureate, 2001-2003 sidekicks they were never handsome and often came with a hormone imbalance manifested by corpulence, a yodel of a voice or ears big as…
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Chlojewell: "thankfully, heroes never die in movies and leave the sidekick alone. he would not stand for it. gabby or pat, pancho or andy remind us of a part of ourselves" -ronald koertge; sidekicks (2/2)
Vickimiko: sidekicks, by ronald koertge - poem 089 | poetry 180: a poem a day for american high schools, hosted by billy colli...
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Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
 by Andrew Lang

Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
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