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Adobo

this is your recipe for adobo: a portion of brain --- yours. don't have one? take mine. a piece of your lungs --- no wait. here's a cigarette: spice. take a teaspoon of tears --- yes, yours. turn it into stone --- this my teacher told me. your concoction is ready: stir, stir hard. now try it --- just try. you'll need it later. when you break your heart, it will come in handy. by then you will need that portion of brain: think, think good things. that piece of smoked lung --- breathe, slowly. that tear that is stone: melt it into tears again: cry

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 3/12/2012 7:39:00 AM
Congratulations on your poetry being featured this week Robert. Love, Carol
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Date: 3/5/2012 12:51:00 PM
Congratulations on your super win Robert. Love, Carol
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Date: 3/4/2012 10:44:00 PM
Congratulations for a win in my contest! The creativity in the formatting of this poem is exceptional, and it has a great rhythm to it as well. I don't think I've ever seen an instructional poem quite like this!  -KMD
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