9.29.2006

Poetry 365: Theodore Says

Make a cup of Lipton
and let it steep on the counter
for 3 minutes and 42 seconds,
no more, no less.

When stirring the milk
and sugar in, go clockwise
only 5 turns, but make sure
to get that nice clink noise each time.

Does it smell of blackberries?
Or maybe cut grass, without
all that 2 stroke gasoline?
Stand at the window

and wonder how long it took
for the kudzu to swallow up the oaks.

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