a planetary wrong turn
with no off-ramp to the Goldilocks zone
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the one-eyed dogcatcher told the boy about a little green farm
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he prefers the original artificial taste of Rocket Pops
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when translating ‘summer thunder’ was a cinch
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locust swarms on the I-80 corridor
the HOV lane transcends
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the urge to answer the unknown caller
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before Les Mots
I played Wipe Out
on the surface of the sun
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a seance of pewter rain falling
an inch at a time
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I rushed in to tell about the silver maple leaf
independently astir in the heat
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pennies on the track
how I got to know the long faces of Lincoln
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he couldn’t hear the bell crickets
with the air conditioner on full blast
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breathing the same air as the bulked-up horsefly