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 | 789 reads

Bromide Junction

Submitted on June 22, 2007 - 13:07 | 740 reads

Crow Creek

Submitted on July 9, 2007 - 13:36 | 681 reads

Davis

Submitted on May 23, 2007 - 17:59 | 793 reads

DESIRE

Submitted on May 22, 2007 - 12:08 | 1045 reads

Ephraim Goodfellow

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 13:38 | 393 reads

Ezra

Submitted on July 6, 2007 - 08:51 | 753 reads

Fudgearound

Submitted on July 10, 2007 - 09:25 | 715 reads

Good Samaritan Village (Edit)

Submitted on July 12, 2007 - 07:42 | 685 reads

Hazael

Submitted on May 27, 2007 - 12:34 | 742 reads

IXL

Submitted on July 13, 2007 - 08:37 | 967 reads

Jumpertown (Edit)

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 10:54 | 748 reads

Kingdom Hall

Submitted on June 7, 2007 - 10:11 | 789 reads

Leisure Lee

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 13:24 | 815 reads

Los Alamos

Submitted on September 24, 2007 - 11:51 | 641 reads

Mac

Submitted on July 14, 2007 - 12:19 | 769 reads

Nemo

Submitted on June 3, 2007 - 17:41 | 996 reads

O'Neals Crossroad

Submitted on June 2, 2007 - 12:09 | 1113 reads

Ozone Park

Submitted on June 4, 2007 - 09:47 | 702 reads

Perdido

Submitted on June 12, 2007 - 18:46 | 1060 reads

Quintette

Submitted on June 22, 2007 - 13:43 | 745 reads

Ready

Submitted on June 4, 2007 - 11:43 | 672 reads

Rescue

Submitted on May 30, 2007 - 11:50 | 907 reads

Simplicity

Submitted on July 15, 2007 - 12:49 | 850 reads

TB Crossroads

Submitted on July 17, 2007 - 19:14 | 695 reads

Unique

Submitted on June 18, 2007 - 12:22 | 691 reads

Vermillion

Submitted on August 31, 2007 - 14:08 | 706 reads

Welcome to Baileyton

Submitted on September 6, 2009 - 07:23 | 158 reads

Wizard Wells

Submitted on May 31, 2007 - 10:25 | 1008 reads

Xenophon

Submitted on September 1, 2007 - 08:39 | 571 reads

Yazoo Junction

Submitted on September 2, 2007 - 18:28 | 687 reads

Zebulon

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 12:53 | 726 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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