Fortune Cookies: Poems by Andrew Cox

Random Thoughts on the Way to the Chinese Restaurant

The wedding cake crumbled long ago and we have lost touch with the plastic bride and groom.

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If the future is in the cards then why aren’t we all dealing from the bottom of the deck?

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I went and sat in the most expensive room in the house. It did not make me feel any better.

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What we lack in our play is the guy in motley pointing the way with a bony little finger.

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The places we come back to are blessed for letting us arrive.

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We think we look out the window but the outside looks in at us and the window says yes to both.

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