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Short-Pants Potentate

Autoplay

Inferno of a summer day
Mother's dozing

Tommy, tiny, three,
paring knife in hand

tiptoes out, flops
short-pants potentate

upon the sidewalk sunny,
operates on ants

Donal Mahoney

Friday, May 25, 2012

Topic(s) of this poem: summer

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