The Shirts

Tom put on his red shirt and dusted every dusty knob

down the row of offices on the third floor

from his knees.

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Lisa put on her orange shirt and embroidered the words

“Cock_Stench” into her cooking apron

like her twitter hero, @Dril

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Mr. Brokoff, wearing his yellow shirt, startled a crowd announcing

that the sliver in his foot was rooted and would be growing into a tree;

he felt it was unethical to pull it out.

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Leeland wore a green shirt when he bent down to taste the sewer water

running out of suicide ideas and burning his curiosity away

like erosion on a mountain.

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Jelli was wearing a blue shirt when she grabbed her megaphone and

threw it into her girlfriend’s window enough times

to create some serious cracks.

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Mrs. Robinson wore an indigo corset and spent

six dollars on the quarter machines at pizza hut

trying to get the plastic spider ring.

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Vince wears a violet shirt everyday which is fine because

he booked the band that no one had ever heard of and

they ended up drawing a decent audience, capitalism.

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They all put their rings together and summoned Captain Planet.

Sort of. 

Mrs. Robinson’s ears started bleeding from attempting magic

with plastic from a quarter machine.  

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An ambulance was called.