Some of the best poems you'll read - Perigee
Some of the best poems you'll read - Perigee
Some of the best poems you'll read - Perigee
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"Fake Butter Flavored Fumes"<br />
by Mike Marks<br />
FOURTH PLACE WINNER<br />
Fake butter flavored fumes won't make you fat,<br />
but <strong>the</strong>y kill your lungs in <strong>the</strong> Gilster-Mary Lee<br />
Jasper, Missouri microwave popcorn factory.<br />
And a jury has determined that<br />
<strong>the</strong> smell will get you millions<br />
if you were a popcorn packer who<br />
collected wages mixing <strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong>fending goo<br />
and halved your years compared to o<strong>the</strong>r civilians.<br />
Was trading your time on earth any stranger<br />
than dancing with that impostor flavor,<br />
choosing it instead <strong>of</strong> your life to savor?<br />
Now workers wear respirators to avoid <strong>the</strong> danger,<br />
while lawyers invade this sleepy soybean town<br />
to drink c<strong>of</strong>fee at Judy's Café and hang around.<br />
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