Best Kickoff Poems

Rattling and clanking
Starting after the November thermostat click.
I love the smell of the house 
When my dad would first turn on the furnace 
For the winter. 
It is a fungus-growing-on-rotting-tree smell,
Something slightly burning. 

Soon to follow: the counters covered
In Chex and pretzel sticks and mixed...

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