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poetry by j matthew waters

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third shift


making toys out of wood
glue & brads & paint
shaping tools to cut & sand
drill & screw & shave

rows & rows of tiny workshops
inside giant warehouse
one creative per station
specialized in their craft

meanwhile the boss
peruses list after list after list
teleconnects updated orders
directly to his worker bees





november two thousand twenty-three
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all rights reserved

santa’s little blue bird


I witnessed first hand
how santa claus hijacked
a short bus half-filled with
excited yet misinformed misfits

you could see him barreling
down route 13
allegedly screaming out a list of names
bouncing on the driver’s seat
failing to get the little blue bird
off the ground



december two thousand sixteen
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all rights reserved

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