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Thursday Poetry Post: Getting Married in a White Castle
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Thursday Poetry Post: Getting Married in a White Castle

You wear a pickle as a boutonniere because you hate pickles but you love me.

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Hattie Jean Hayes
Apr 27, 2023
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We’ve got one more NaPoWriMo Thursday post, and I wanted to dig into the archives for this one! My friend Molly and I do NaPoWriMo together every year, and in 2016, we had a conversation that lead to…this. One of 10,000 inside jokes:

And the next day, that inside joke lead to the development of this poem. This is the first draft, as it sits untouched in my NaPoWriMo 2016 word document:

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