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Image: Salt Water Taffy from Original Curt Teich Postcard Donation, 1941, taken from Wikimedia Commons

"...skinny dipping in a sea of potato chips / swaying like kelp past cookies..." Read more

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Pole, stretchers, ribs, and canopy. Read more

Photo by Sister Perish, from Wikimedia Commons

“...it tells time / rapidly, then untells it back again” Read more

Photo by Sukhveer Hans from Unslash.com

A remote control to guide the grief in front of you. Read more

Photo by P. R. Jameson, from Wikipedia Commons

It knows you could use a change of atmosphere. Read more

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With a closing line from Ted Hughes. Read more

Image from Wikipedia Commons, Bookseller & Stationer, 1919

“You name each noise: Jackie chopping/ watermelon, Deb slurping from the hose,/ that neighbour’s fat Chihuahua.” Read more

Photo by Courtney Cook

Keep your radio on—otherwise you might not make it home. Read more

Photo by Leandro Mazzuquini

"Life’s a bomb on a timer." Read more

Photo by Todd Quackenbush

“Now that we have all the right tools for the job, we can put them away for the last time.” Read more

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