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    Lester Smith works days as a writer & technologist for Sebranek Inc., an educational publisher in Wisconsin. In his spare time, he designs games, writes poetry & fiction, codes Web stuff, publishes other writers via Popcorn Press, & dreams of being the first Android Poet Laureate of Mars.

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    JENNY

    By Lester | May 18, 2009

    If the sun were a bowling ball,
    I have read,
    the earth would be a peppercorn
    somewhere down the hill
    across the street.

    If the earth were a bowling ball,
    someone said,
    its face were smoother still,
    ocean deeps and mountain heights
    signifying nothing.

    How then should I cross that ocean,
    climb that mountain,
    and tell the sun
    my fascination with your face?

    Better just to take you bowling
    and smile to see
    you
    laughing
    as the pins drop.
     
     
    —Lester Smith
     
     
    (Originally appeared in Woud You Dance?)

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