I didn’t do a poem last Friday because I was moving. Today, I do two poems because I am moved.

(5/7/5)

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Vanessa Hudgens Dyes Her Hair Turquoise

Currently trending
Fourth in Yahoo’s Top Ten list
Above a plane crash

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Corporate layoffs
And bridge on verge of collapse
I ask only why

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Why must I know why
Because she was bored that’s why
Now I understand

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Old Man Odor

I am protected
48 continuous
Hours I smell like

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Arctic Ice scent with
Odors eliminated
At the source: my pits

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Two days no showers
On 49th hour odor
Returns to the pits

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Somebody invent
Naturally scented Youth
Antiperspirants

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In roll-on and gel
Skateboarder’s or Runner’s Sweat
Smell of Returned Years

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Give to me Ascent
Olympians strong and quick
Is that Lack of Fear?

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Scents for each event
Like bobsledding or curling
Not fresh arctic ice

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I will wait warming
A bench soon surrounded by
Cheering hungry birds

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Ignorant of age
Eyes tracing my stale bread toss
Applause of more sir, more

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