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Sour Milk

patrick gavin

A mundane cup of tea
Yet as the milk splashes into the cup
What is this strange dance?
Of acidic clumps of fat
We never had the milk go off!
When you were here
Now the milk sours in the fridge

About this poem

This is how your family changes after your children start to leave The subtle realisation that you are no longer a nuclear family.

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Written on November 10, 2023

Submitted by pgpatgavin on November 09, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFG
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 194
Words 45
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
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