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 - 10:02 | 840 reads

Bromide Junction

Submitted on June 22, 2007 - 14:07 | 800 reads

Crow Creek

Submitted on July 9, 2007 - 14:36 | 732 reads

Davis

Submitted on May 23, 2007 - 18:59 | 841 reads

DESIRE

Submitted on May 22, 2007 - 13:08 | 1116 reads

Ephraim Goodfellow

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 14:38 | 443 reads

Ezra

Submitted on July 6, 2007 - 09:51 | 816 reads

Fudgearound

Submitted on July 10, 2007 - 10:25 | 762 reads

Good Samaritan Village (Edit)

Submitted on July 12, 2007 - 08:42 | 729 reads

Hazael

Submitted on May 27, 2007 - 13:34 | 794 reads

IXL

Submitted on July 13, 2007 - 09:37 | 1053 reads

Jumpertown (Edit)

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 11:54 | 800 reads

Kingdom Hall

Submitted on June 7, 2007 - 11:11 | 832 reads

Leisure Lee

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 14:24 | 858 reads

Los Alamos

Submitted on September 24, 2007 - 12:51 | 680 reads

Mac

Submitted on July 14, 2007 - 13:19 | 827 reads

Nemo

Submitted on June 3, 2007 - 18:41 | 1065 reads

O'Neals Crossroad

Submitted on June 2, 2007 - 13:09 | 1190 reads

Ozone Park

Submitted on June 4, 2007 - 10:47 | 741 reads

Perdido

Submitted on June 12, 2007 - 19:46 | 1145 reads

Quintette

Submitted on June 22, 2007 - 14:43 | 808 reads

Ready

Submitted on June 4, 2007 - 12:43 | 720 reads

Rescue

Submitted on May 30, 2007 - 12:50 | 973 reads

Simplicity

Submitted on July 15, 2007 - 13:49 | 900 reads

TB Crossroads

Submitted on July 17, 2007 - 20:14 | 737 reads

Unique

Submitted on June 18, 2007 - 13:22 | 740 reads

Vermillion

Submitted on August 31, 2007 - 15:08 | 762 reads

Welcome to Baileyton

Submitted on September 6, 2009 - 08:23 | 205 reads

Wizard Wells

Submitted on May 31, 2007 - 11:25 | 1088 reads

Xenophon

Submitted on September 1, 2007 - 09:39 | 622 reads

Yazoo Junction

Submitted on September 2, 2007 - 19:28 | 733 reads

Zebulon

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 13:53 | 776 reads

Comments

Ewan | June 8, 2007 - 13:34

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

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