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Tag: getting old

Poems

Shopping

March 27, 2012 ROMPoetry

In the IGA refrigerated
to a degree for maintaining ice cream,
she wheels the chrome cart down the produce aisle,
where the vegetables are threatening
to freeze and bananas seem the sole safe fruit, Continue reading “Shopping” →

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