Three Flavor Town USA Poems by Joseph Verhelle

The micro-economics of a (really big) caramel apple  A student gave me a caramel applefor Christmas, it was plumpand made by her grandmotherwith love. I was eating it in my classroomwith the doors closed,hovering over a trash canlike a rat. I didn’t pack anything else for lunchand the law of diminishing returnsdeclared that soon, the…

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