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How Was Your Day?
By Howard Good

Like a secondhand truck,
smoke pouring out
from under the hood,
a man in a dirty baseball cap
beating at the flames with a towel.

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Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. His first full-length book of poetry, Lovesick, is forthcoming from The Poetry Press of Press Americana.

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