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Cleaning out the rec room fridge at the Home for Retired Poets (poetry)

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(poetry) by Mathlete Thu Oct 22 2009 at 18:46:31
The foods decay, the foods decay and fall
Downward to my trash bag with yellow draw

Strings.

Germs rather at once our milk devour—
Up-gathered now like leaking sour

Cream.

Eww, it drips and gathers, but the fallen spoil
Gathers to a grossness like the ooze of oil;

Leached.

Out, vile jelly jar beside the alien corn.
Ugh, do I dare, do I dare to eat that forlorn...

Peach?

Unfrozen things are subject to decay
So this is just to say,
Nothing with mold can stay.
I like it!
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