Smallvilles : Real US Towns, Imagined Voices

Poems (un)inspired by the names of small towns gleaned from US census information. Any similarity between these poems and real towns is purely unbelievable.

Stories in this set

Arroz

Submitted on June 8, 2007 - 09:02 | 985 reads

Bromide Junction

Submitted on June 22, 2007 - 13:07 | 945 reads

Crow Creek

Submitted on July 9, 2007 - 13:36 | 936 reads

Davis

Submitted on May 23, 2007 - 17:59 | 952 reads

DESIRE

Submitted on May 22, 2007 - 12:08 | 1258 reads

Ephraim Goodfellow

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 13:38 | 567 reads

Ezra

Submitted on July 6, 2007 - 08:51 | 946 reads

Fudgearound

Submitted on July 10, 2007 - 09:25 | 874 reads

Good Samaritan Village (Edit)

Submitted on July 12, 2007 - 07:42 | 920 reads

Hazael

Submitted on May 27, 2007 - 12:34 | 914 reads

IXL

Submitted on July 13, 2007 - 08:37 | 1198 reads

Jumpertown (Edit)

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 10:54 | 931 reads

Kingdom Hall

Submitted on June 7, 2007 - 10:11 | 952 reads

Leisure Lee

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 13:24 | 978 reads

Los Alamos

Submitted on September 24, 2007 - 11:51 | 807 reads

Mac

Submitted on July 14, 2007 - 12:19 | 949 reads

Nemo

Submitted on June 3, 2007 - 17:41 | 1182 reads

O'Neals Crossroad

Submitted on June 2, 2007 - 12:09 | 1336 reads

Ozone Park

Submitted on June 4, 2007 - 09:47 | 862 reads

Perdido

Submitted on June 12, 2007 - 18:46 | 1289 reads

Quintette

Submitted on June 22, 2007 - 13:43 | 924 reads

Ready

Submitted on June 4, 2007 - 11:43 | 846 reads

Rescue

Submitted on May 30, 2007 - 11:50 | 1111 reads

Simplicity

Submitted on July 15, 2007 - 12:49 | 1024 reads

TB Crossroads

Submitted on July 17, 2007 - 19:14 | 857 reads

Unique

Submitted on June 18, 2007 - 12:22 | 870 reads

Vermillion

Submitted on August 31, 2007 - 14:08 | 893 reads

Welcome to Baileyton

Submitted on September 6, 2009 - 07:23 | 344 reads

Wizard Wells

Submitted on May 31, 2007 - 10:25 | 1315 reads

Xenophon

Submitted on September 1, 2007 - 08:39 | 747 reads

Yazoo Junction

Submitted on September 2, 2007 - 18:28 | 863 reads

Zebulon

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 12:53 | 892 reads

Comments

Ewan | June 8, 2007 - 12:34

Yes, the names of the towns are real... the poems are not... Well, they're virtual, aren't they?

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