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1. Andrew Budek-Schmeisser

   November 8, 2024 at 4:53 am

   But don’t forget to pass through Periodicals on your way to the cashier.

   They crouch upon the creaking shelves
   so crowded that wood groans in pain.
   They cluck and growl and preen themselves
   demanding to be read again.
   I flee, then to the laundry room,
   solace in the sudsy soap,
   but here too the bookshelves loom,
   built when kitchen just could not cope
   when books in cabinets were stacked.
   We eat off cheap paper plates,
   and Barb’s Mom’s china sits yet packed
   in multi-stickered moving crates
   for the day it’s yet to meet
   when we’re not reading while we eat.

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