exit here



i love you like a biscuit
melted soft and heated sweet
the sign post marks the distance
30 miles, twenty feet

with each passing gated-farmhouse
each long-tongued, wagging cow
i water for the taste of it
only 19 miles now

the buttered, floured memory
of your golden yellow kiss
has left me as a beggar
wanting more, tasting bliss

1 mile left to your truck stop
i can hardly feel my feet
as they lunge onto your doorstep
your smile, my hunger
let's eat
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XBXB XCDC XAXDA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 434
Words 84
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5

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