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[Lizzie]

Got to love this poem


no one warned us we could become this bored
[the young women of the midwestern cornfields] .......love this line

       or maybe they did
              and we blanked them out

because their words tasted like yet another Cool Whip
Jello and Marshmallow salad
because their laughs were fictional as teenage abstinence ............abstinence feels wrong here

because their creased khakis and blonde hair droned on
of nothing but ranch dressing and choral music
in syllables as clean as Christian radio..............................O boy, you nailed it. Bless um.

Hi Sparky! Thanks for giving it a read. Yeah, the abstinence line will probably get re-worked. Several people are not a fan. It's always good to have confirmation of these things.