Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.
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The caterpillar is not trying to teach you anything. It's just eating a leaf.
Tonight the world gives us permission to be something else.
You have brains in your head. You have shoes on your feet. But here's what the Doctor forgot to explain.
Eight balloons lean on the ceiling. Eight strawberries guard the cake. Eight friends arrive too loudly.
Between the apple and the sandwich I fold a yellow square: Happy birthday.
The whistle sends us climbing from blue water into evening. Wet feet slap concrete.
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