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Kitchen Raid

Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)

hot bread and buttermelt and ribbon cane
blacksweet running down my hand as
we run from grandma’s kitchen laughing
on the inside for we are commandos of
the Acadiana summer but supposed to stay
outside do I own the power company?

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Childhood sneaking

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Written on March 13, 2022

Submitted by BradyB999 on March 14, 2022

Modified on April 11, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 232
Words 42
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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