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Kitchen Doors & Two By Fours.


Kitchen Doors & Two By Fours

Consider
plump Peggy Atwood
squeezing through the checkout counter
of her local IGA.
Her buggy filled
with heavy deli devices
like thick-hipped hyperboles
and jelly-belly rhyme
chocolate concrete allusions
experimental jingles
advertising healthy
Neilson/Cadbury composition.
Poetry reduced to this.

Consider
Ms. Margaret Atwood
patiently waiting at
the checkout counter
of her local IGA.
Her buggy filled
and daily producing
lean ground metaphors
while editing edible pairs
couplets and pares
with lots of juicy pearing
exposing essentials and
rendering scents.
See how her fried hair sizzles
distancing that Mona Lisa simile.
this dietary image
clarifies why
you'll never meet a fat poem.


Pheryne Williams Thatcher Thatch·er   , Margaret Hilda. Baroness. Born 1925.

British Conservative politician who served as prime minister (1979-1990). Her administration was marked by anti-inflationary measures, a brief war in the Falkland Islands (1982), and the passage of a
 is a Vancouver Vancouver, city, Canada
Vancouver, city (1991 pop. 471,844), SW British Columbia, Canada, on Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia, opposite Vancouver Island and just N of the Wash. border.
 poet.
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Author:Thatcher, Pheryne Williams
Publication:Kola
Article Type:Poem
Date:Jan 1, 2000
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