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Allison Miles
Poems
Feb 2011
(A series of American Sentences)
Wrestle with your patio chairs, break one, bow to one, let one go.
Look into the mirror. Take time to smash it to pieces. See yourself.
Break down on 4th. Stand still to watch people pass. Know: Footsteps don't mean "sorry".
On two pages put together, write hard. Shade the bottom page for answers.
Books you have no intention of reading should be highlighted--not burned.
Put strangers in frames. When people ask, reply: "they're just my past."
Cigarette butts in your backyard are artwork. Kick for inspiration.
Open sores hurt when salt rains down from the sky. Too bad your wounds are from lightning.
She thought that lies opened doors. But the janitor heard and locked her out.
Hurry up to slow down. Wheels above ground control little more than planes.
Thoughts of seawater whipping the cliffs edge leaves distressed housewives at bay.
Poems find themselves easily written if locked inside an elevator.
I locked the old man in the closet, so he couldn't see the rainfall.
Run twenty cattle from now 'till midnight to hear just one of Earth's rumbles.
An exercise of writing American sentences
Written by
Allison Miles
Denver, Colorado
(Denver, Colorado)
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