Thursday, June 2, 2011

Tallies

I remember
5th grade
Mrs. Barton
She liked to use
Tallies
Dangled those freaking
Things like carrots
Under a horse's nose
Always tallies
Clean, pert little lines
Arbitrarily defining
Some sum total meaning

Tallies and their chalky
After taste, that's the stuff
I think of late at night.

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