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CacklingSun
The cackling sun melts the sky.
The exhausted earth heaves, unwilling, out of breath.
And the people under parasols crawl from shadow to furious shadow, asking why,
as the conflagration of a midsummer's day offers sweltering death.

The cats twitch in dream as passersby
peer longingly at the windowsills where they ignore the street.
A lone man smears salty rivers of sweat into his eyes,
thirsting for conditioned interlude from this murderous heat.

"A cloud, a cloud, oh thank you, a cloud",
weary walkers, prostrating themselves to cumulus change,
stare into the glare and declare to their friends out loud,
newly prepared for hopefully impending rain.

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SuctionTool
Light suction to mosquito bite.
This tubular tool's neato, right?
White plastic itch torpedo's might
will help you get to sleep tonight.

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NotDedicated
Can something be dedicated not dedicated?
Is the declaration not designation?
Is the determination not a demonstration?

Does undedication deem it deprecated?
Is its detraction not debilitation?
Does diminution not display disinclination?

Is disclosure on its face disseminated?
Is its denunciation not defamation?
Are we discouraged by its desecration?

If it's not dedicated, what is it?

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Puffball
Pink petaled prickly purpurea,
perimeter prostrated pendulously.
Spiny center starkly solid,
stickers stiffly stab at me.

Pretty puffball pretends plushness,
possesses piercing pointed pikes.
Seemingly supple, shards surprising,
startling stilettos, secret spikes.

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Atomized aromatics animatedly arise all a-twitter,
alchemical amber alike to autumn.

Billowing bubbles blossom in brassy bitter,
buzzing, bursting, boiling from bottom.

Carbonation climbs and coalesces to creamy chitter,
a clinging, crackling, crown of cotton.

Glass of nostalgia, sensorial memory transmitter,
forever in mind and heart, never forgotten.

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