Smallvilles : Real US Towns, Imagined Voices
By Ewan
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. I haven't used the names on the map, but may do, one day.
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Arroz
how desparate would you be... to make a new life?
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- 1715 reads
Bromide Junction
Another small town
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Davis
Another from a series of poems (un)inspired by the names of small US towns
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DESIRE
Part of a series inspired by names of (very) small towns in the United States
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Ephraim Goodfellow
Recession is nothing new...
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Fudgearound
another small town with a(n un)fortunate name....
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Good Samaritan Village (Edit)
Somewhere over.....
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Hazael
Part of a series of poems (un)inspired by the names of small US towns
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Jumpertown (Edit)
A poem (un)inspired etc... this is the one that started it... blame it, not me
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Kingdom Hall
Who's that knocking...?
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O'Neals Crossroad
You can't hide in a small town
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Ozone Park
Ozone Park city New York Alt. 9 Pop.9992 More ‘n’ fifty years ago: we liked Ike and so ‘Merica was just about the best: and every second rocket test inspired a park like this one here.
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Perdido
town: small, name found in US census, guess the rest. Edit May 21 2010
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Simplicity
but the teaser might be longer than the poem is, know what I mean?
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TB Crossroads
Carry me back to old....
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Unique
Hey these small towns have some great names!
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Vermillion
He's a drugged up truck-drivin man
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Welcome to Baileyton
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Wizard Wells
Another poem(un)inspired by the name of a small town on the US Census list
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Yazoo Junction
the very last small town
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Zebulon
Even a small town gets visitors it might not want...
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Comments
Yes, the names of the towns
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