<div class="gmail_quote"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small; ">THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A FAUX HAWK GETS USED</span></p>


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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">I have my night class </span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">draft homestead acts.</span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Jed does a flood control project, and </span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Clown of Vaseline has chapped lips </span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">for years.  There is pee flying into </span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">a pail in the grain states.</span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">I put some heartburn </span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">into my soft water.</span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">I say, </span></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">students, </span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">did you know this sock</span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">used to be puppets?</span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Tomorrow, I will do a pun. </span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">The daylight is coming </span></font></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><br>


</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">quickly on.</span></font></span></div>


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</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Originally from Nebraska,<b> Scott Abels</b> currently lives and teaches in Honolulu.  More of his poems can be found online and in print with<i> Word for/Word, Juked, Lungfull!, Sixth Finch, Action Yes, Fringe, Alice Blue, Jellyfish, Sawbuck, Raft</i>, and many others.  He edits the online poetry journal <i>Country Music</i>.</span></div>

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</font></div><br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>