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"I keep dreaming about the District Attorney"

is a good first line for a poem.

Emily Sanders Hopkins
Dec 03, 2023
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Concurrent Sentences

I keep dreaming about the District Attorney,
Matt Vanhouten is his name.
Not sex dreams, not danger dreams, nothing scandalous like that.
And to tell the truth it was only one dream, a few nights ago,
and I can’t remember anything about it
except that it was unremarkable
but gave me a juicy line for a poem.
Everything means something, eve…

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