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Breaking Bread by Melanie Browne

Breaking Bread At a restaurant On Montrose we are seated at the ‘community table’ There are three other couples Already seated we order our food and the couples talk only to their spouse Its awkward so we mostly talk about the food Isn’t this good? Here, try this! Next time, I’m ordering that! I feel …

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Frozen Orange Juice by Melanie Browne

Frozen Orange Juice They are getting rid of frozen orange juice cartons and pennies & I don’t see clowns much anymore At my age things start to move pretty fast Like a freight train Like a jet plane like a divisive celebrity opinion I don’t want to go backwards I don’t want to go Forwards …

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Jack Kerouac never chewed away the January Blues by Melanie Browne

Jack Kerouac never chewed away the January Blues Eating grape flavored pez candy a few days after Christmas my daughters cat is sleeping on the puzzle table Have some pez I say to my husband no thanks, it tastes like grape pepto- bismol I toss the cat and stare at the puzzle which starts to …

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Doldrums by Melanie Browne

Doldrums I was running on empty all I had left in my pocket were doldrums which isn’t enough for a donut from Shipleys so I scrolled on my phone and followed a long thread I followed it all the way to hell I wasn’t lonely there because hell was filled with a billion people that …

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