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Three Poems
by Brian Beatty


Compost

Before he died, the stand-up comedian often joked about buying an ant farm
then discovering "them fellas didn't grow shit."
I hate to contradict the dead, but I think the real problem was the soil.

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Witness Protection Poem

Grow a beard fast
if stuff doesn't go
 according to plan.

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Laughter

If you're a Christian Scientist,
it's the only medicine you've got.
Best of luck battling cancer using
old issues of the Reader's Digest.