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‘A story is
like something you
wind out of yourself.
Like a spider,
it is a web you weave,
and you love your story
like a child.”
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~ Katherine Anne Porter
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Elfje: (Cinquain)
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expensive
well made
rarer than rare
people, places and things
dear
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Tanka: 5-7-5, 7-7
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over the river
going to visit grandma
and through the forest
respect for family birthright
prideful genealogy
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Poem:
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no, no, your other left
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let us all take a trip to fantasy land
a place where everything is a one night stand
a place where fact and fiction are intermingled
a place where everyone’s vision is wrinkled
we’ll call the place california*
a place filled with tropical fauna and flora
also a place filled with fruits and nuts
everyone taking selfies of their butts
a sanctuary for felons and illegals
and we are not talking about sick eagles
daily fantasies produced by tv and movies
you can’t, won’t, don’t die when shot by an uzi
the whole place is cracked by the San Andreas Fault
every other producer charged with sexual assault
the fifth largest economy in the world
a place where the Mexican flag is unfurled
their representatives are poster children for term limits
their southern border like a sieve inhibits
politically and on the map they are as far left as you can go
they believe the feds have no right to know
we pray that someday their sanity may return
the unity of the nation should be their major concern
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* The name California originates from the Spanish conquistadors,
after Califia, a mythical island paradise described in Las Serges de Esplandian
by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo (a Spanish romance written about 1510).
It most likely came from the Arabic word khalifa which means steward or leader.
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