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6/5/12

Bryan Beck

from "Best Friends"



I have this out-of-control windmill arm
so the townspeople all voted
to kick me out and tie me

to this old maypole 
in a field like where a real windmill might be
so I couldn’t get too close to the kids.
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3 comments:

  1. Love this one. My wife snagged the issue before I even had a chance to see it, mainly because she read this poem and immediately worked into a lesson plan for her high school students. I eventually got to read it too.

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  2. Oh awesome, thanks Scott. Glad you got to read it at last.

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