harps mcclean. the peak of my literary career

the peak of my literary career

as a boy
i collected similes 
or things like them
sorted roadside trash by first consonant 

put couplets of poetry
on my bike spokes like playing cards
no one understood
or knew where i was going

but i was on the local news once
on my bike
jumping 15 trash cans
for national poetry month
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