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a poem by
Jak Cardini
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Gail

Mrs. Wheeler is having a conversation with a convincing jumble of interstate

                              saying something about leaving town

 

        Her children clang like a few angry spoons

arguing in the sink

 

 

                                                The whole house is obnoxious

 

                          The Archers are at home listening to "The Buffalo"

 

Chad's watching owls sing vinyl siding into the trees

                and teaching their love songs

                                             to a tape recorder

                            expecting their guitars to fly

 

Someone's bickering over the phone with a sea that never returns his calls

 

Everyone is interrupted

 

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