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The Day The Humans Got Dressed Up In Animal Costumes (To Give the Real Animals a Rest)I thought the guy dressed up like a kingfisher / Didn’t really look like a kingfisher / His beak too long
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The Sleeping Small ThingThe rock slept / Genghis Khan clamped fingers / Over the edge of a land mass
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RootsI pick up this book of Robert Burns poems / As my great-grandfather picked it up a hundred years ago / I put it down in exasperation
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WinterwearStanding on the 10th floor / Staring through a freshly cleaned spotless picture window / At a layer of snow
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The cubicle of Emma McGurkEvery employee's name was listed in the address field / Except for one / The one I never noticed
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The Weekly Staff MeetingWe clocked in / (Punched in the older guys said) / And sat in a circle of orange plastic chairs
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Freedom and arroganceThe rust-colored rooster / Hemmed in by rusted mesh wire / The white crane
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DocumentedOn August 31, 2012 / at 1:44 PM / Tom bought
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TreatmentI was just being silly in art class / Me a comedian at age 11 / But then on the lawn outside
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Toil meets leisureWaitress carrying / Table in from sidewalk smiles / At a skateboarder
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