DAY POEM

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I think Yes   it’s all about voicemail
and email now   I think of sex   what a thing
for humans   I thought

it’s the 1970s and I’m so terribly worried about serving tasty coffee to my husband

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I liked to garden but really think of
flavor crystals
mountain grown

she likes the coupons
she can have them
I’m in it for the flavor

are these not
the same guys who dropped
a gallon-sized can of Dinty Moore Stew
from the dormitory roof

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       - Mel Nichols

Ms. Nichols is a Masonic educator (under The Order of the Eastern Star) and central curator at the Pyramid Gallery art center (Atlantic division). Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including PipLit, Forklift Ohio, Anomaly, Gargoyle, and Fascicle. She is co-editor of the journal illuminated meat, and an editor of English Matters. All of her day poems are titled "DAY POEM" with a collection of her work published by Edge Books in 2005.