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Written & narrated by Elizabeth Kerlikowske
Inspired by the "Yes... there really is a Kalamazoo" billboard
Object 82.125
We drove there holidays on 131
from Grand Rapids past the billboard
that scared me: Repent, the end is near.
And then the avenues
Have, Gave, Fave, Dave, Cave.
Howard Johnson’s blue and orange, clams and
French fries, sit at the counter and order yourself.
Gram Noble’s on Westnedge Hill. The giant tub
of Be-Mo chips waiting for us, the salty cards
when we were through playing Spite and Malice.
And then that Easter, when we opened
the Be-Mo tub, and it was full of wooden blocks.
Peeps could not console us.
Project Sponsors
The Ripple Effect is a collaboration between the Connecting Chords Music Festival, the Friends of Poetry, and the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. Additional funding was provided by the The Arts Fund of Kalamazoo County, a grant program of the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo.
