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CA CONRAD’S SQUIRREL<br />

Travis Cooper<br />

I accidentally kicked a wooden squirrel.<br />

Shmoo said the squirrel cursed me<br />

so I burned it in the firepit,<br />

its chirpy face smiled at me as it blackened.<br />

That night I dreamt of the burnt squirrel,<br />

it took my giant nut—<br />

the one I was saving to pay rent.<br />

It darted to the top of my bookcase<br />

and spoke in a high-pitched helium voice,<br />

“You can have your nut, if you sign the Devil’s book”<br />

Nuts are so expensive these days.<br />

I woke up hungry<br />

Shmoo made blueberry pancakes<br />

She asked where her heirloom squirrel was<br />

I said I didn’t know.<br />

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