Best Tape Measure Poems

tape measure in hand
soft spoken,"Can't believe it"....
dust upon treadmill  


Inspired by the contest about addictions
not an entry....
Since my back problems and then the surgery,
I haven't been on the treadmill..I got on it 
this morning and there was an inch of dust..
I have spent a...

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Santa’s workshop was full of singers of every kind of voice.
The loudest one that sounded like gravel was my cousin Joyce.
She was wrapping and humming, and they all sang along.
We are in the best holiday mood! Said the happy elf throng.

They are off key a...

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Tape Measure

The very deep breathing of 
the tape measure continues to 
affect my 
USB holders cha-cha rehearsals.
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They examined me with tape measures in their eyes as I entered
superimposing famous female faces over my own in their minds
like pictures printed on clear plastic sheets
placing one atop another onto an overhead projector
my teachers used years ago in the classroom
contemplating the magic of makeup
the...

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